International round table «Children and books»

On October 11, 2022, the Department of Russian Language and Literature of Abai University, together with the Vita Moscow Center and the Rossotrudnichestvo Representative Office in Almaty, held an international round table «Children and Books» dedicated to the Year of Children in Kazakhstan. The participants were teachers and students of the Institute of Philology.

The meeting was opened by Tatiana Baryshnikova, Consul of the Consulate General of Russia and representative of Rossotrudnichestvo in Almaty. The reports were made by scientists and teachers of Kazakhstan and Russia.

Anna Timakova, Head of the Department of Literature and Methods of Teaching Literature at Penza State University, in the report «The book and the teenage reader: technologies of familiarization with reading» presented practical methods that teachers can use in the formation of children`s reading culture. Young readers should be taught «slow reading», analysis «following the author», with the use of questions in the course of reading, using the commented reading technique.

The candidate of philological Sciences, President of the Academy of Children`s Books «ALTAIR» Gemma Amanzholova told in detail about the children`s book in Kazakhstan.

Saule Abisheva shared practical experience of the Department of Russian Language and Literature of Abai University. Joint project activities with the HSE (Moscow) on the formation of reading skills among elementary school students, participation in the international platform «Children`s books as wings» on the basis of the Herzen State Pedagogical University, meetings with children`s writers, reader contests, essays, the work of the Literary Lounge «I discovered a poet ...», virtual excursions for museums in Russia and Kazakhstan, diploma projects and master`s theses on children`s reading - this is an incomplete list of forms of work that the department conducts.

Students-philologists, future teachers of literature, received not only important and useful information, but also an impulse to further creative work. At the end of the Round Table, agreements were reached on continuing cooperation in the promotion of reading, plans for the preparation of joint projects were outlined.