PROBLEMS OF TEXTBOOK CREATION AND TEACHING ORGANIZATION IN BILINGUAL EDUCATION

Pilot projects for the introduction of bilingual education have been implemented in Azerbaijani schools, according to the decision of the Ministry of Science and Education, where teaching has been conducted in non-state languages in the last three years. From the current school year, the subject “Azerbaijani history” is being taught in the state language in all of the mentioned groups of republican schools. The prospect of making the textbook for this subject available to students, and expanding bilingual education to other school grades in the coming years, and several other subjects related to Azerbaijani literature, geography, and culture has created opportunities for an in-depth study of the essence of bilingual education, as well as the modern linguistic didactic and ethnopsychology requirements for this educational model, facilitating its wide application within our country’s education system. In the context of structural, strategic development, and content changes carried out within our country’s education system, a proposal is put forward in the direction of creating legislative, scientific-methodical, and teaching resource bases for bilingual education. The article lists the challenges encountered and expected in the optimal age periods for bilingual education, as well as at different stages and levels of education, and provides specific recommendations for their solutions. To be successful in bilingual education, the importance of using Azerbaijani as well as Russian or English as the language of instruction from the first grade in non-state language schools is emphasized.