THE ROLE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES IN THE POLICY OF UZBEKISTAN

Since the independence, Uzbekistan's international relations with the countries of the world community have moved to a qualitatively new level. In the period of globalization of the economy, integration of political and cultural life, contributing to the activation and strengthening of international relations in various fields, foreign languages, in particular, English and Russian as the language of international communication plays a vital role in socio-political sphere of the country. There are various studies devoted to the role of foreign languages in the modern globalized world. This paper examines the impact of Russian and English as international languages in the Republic of Uzbekistan and its policy. The analysis showed that currently Russian and Uzbek coexist within the post-Soviet space. However there is some evidence that English and Russian are in a race to become the dominant foreign language among the employers of the country in the future.

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