Emblems of independence: script choice in post-Soviet Turkmenistan

Clement, Victoria

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“…According to Niyazow, a new democratic society could appear only through the state taking responsibilities for the well-being of the nation, which led to the total control of overall economic, social and political life of the country (Horak 2005). Post-independence reform of education was intimately tied to language and alphabet reform (Clement 2008). Encouraged by Gorbachev's reforms, the Turkmen SSR adopted the law "On Language" on 24 May 1990.…”

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25 Years of transformations of higher education systems in post-Soviet countries: reform and continuity

Sabzalieva

2018

European Journal of Higher Education

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25 Years of transformations of higher education systems in post-Soviet countries: reform and continuity

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2018

European Journal of Higher Education

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“…Government offices and official media were the final targets for reform. The first newspaper printed entirely in the new Latin alphabet appeared in Gün on 27 October 1994, the third anniversary of Turkmenistan's declaration of independence (Clement : 181).…”

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Articulating national identity in Turkmenistan: inventing tradition through myth, cult and language

Clement

2014

Nations and Nationalism

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A study of myth, cult, and language as tools of state power, this paper analyzes ways national identity was constructed and articulated in one state. When Türkmenistan became independent in 1991 its first president, Saparmyrat Nyýazow, promoted himself as the ‘savior’ of the nation by reconceptualising what it meant to be Türkmen. Myth, public texts and language policy were used to construct this identity. While they were the targets of the state's cultural products, Türkmen citizens contributed to the processes of cultural production. Nyýazow legitimised his authoritarian leadership, first by co‐opting Türkmen citizens to support his regime, and then by coercing them as participants in his personality cult. The paper concludes that Nyýazow used the production of culture, ‘invented tradition’ in Hobsbawm's sense, to bolster his agenda and further his own power. It also argues that the exaggerated cult of personality Nyýazow cultivated limited his achievements, rather than solidifying them.

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“…When the Soviet Union disintegrated in the 1990s, for independent Central Asian countries, it was an urgent decision to opt for Latinization reforms with the aim to escape from "Soviet identity" and build closer ties with the Western world [1,2]. A similar example of script switchover reforms has occurred in other parts of the Turkic world, from Turkey [3], Turkmenistan [4], the Republic of Tatarstan [5], Azerbaijan [6,7] to the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Republic in China [8,9]. Kazakhstan is about to join the Latinization movement by changing its current Kazakh Cyrillic alphabet to Kazakh Latin.…”

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Cognitive Learning and Robotics: Innovative Teaching for Inclusivity

Oralbayeva

Amirova

CohenMiller

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MTI

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We present the interdisciplinary CoWriting Kazakh project in which a social robot acts as a peer in learning the new Kazakh Latin alphabet, to which Kazakhstan is going to shift from the current Kazakh Cyrillic by 2030. We discuss the past literature on cognitive learning and script acquisition in-depth and present a theoretical framing for this study. The results of word and letter analyses from two user studies conducted between 2019 and 2020 are presented. Learning the new alphabet through Kazakh words with two or more syllables and special native letters resulted in significant learning gains. These results suggest that reciprocal Cyrillic-to-Latin script learning results in considerable cognitive benefits due to mental conversion, word choice, and handwriting practices. Overall, this system enables school-age children to practice the new Kazakh Latin script in an engaging learning scenario. The proposed theoretical framework illuminates the understanding of teaching and learning within the multimodal robot-assisted script learning scenario and beyond its scope.

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Emblems of independence: script choice in post-Soviet Turkmenistan

Cited by 9 publications

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25 Years of transformations of higher education systems in post-Soviet countries: reform and continuity

25 Years of transformations of higher education systems in post-Soviet countries: reform and continuity

Articulating national identity in Turkmenistan: inventing tradition through myth, cult and language

Cognitive Learning and Robotics: Innovative Teaching for Inclusivity

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