Accessing English Textbooks Through Translingual Support Material in Efl Classrooms in Uzbekistan

The public schools in Uzbekistan are multilingual owing to the presence of multicultural and multi-ethnic groups in the landlocked country. The schools, through different mediums of instruction – Uzbek (80%), Russian (15%) and other languages (5%) – cater to the needs of bi-/ multilingual learners, but the English textbooks remain monolingual. So, as a part of this paper, the teachers from a public school in Uzbekistan, have prepared translingual support material based on the Grade-7 English PREPARE Book which is widely used in the schools in the country.