The role of multilingual education in the formation of a competitive personality

The role of multilingual education in the formation of a competitive personality

 “Kazakhstan must be regarded as a high-educated country all over the world,  the population of which speaks 3 languages: Kazakh as a state language, Russian as a language of international communication and English as a language of successful integration into global economics”

N.A.Nazarbayev in “New Kazakhstan in new world”

We live and work in the epoch when globalization of all spheres of human activities takes place which results in review of priorities in education. That’s why multicultural together with informational and communicative competences nowadays are determined by the world educational community as a basic educational competence and one of the main trends is to form world educational area. The actuality of multicultural and multilingual education is defined by universal world tendency to the integration into economic, cultural and political spheres. We understand multilingual education as an aimed process of exposure to world culture by means of languages when these learning languages are the ways to achieve the spheres of special knowledge, to acquire cultural-historic and social experience of different countries and people.

It is known that only the state can successfully develop and blend well with a number of leading countries in the world that will be able to create for its citizens decent working conditions for the acquisition of high-quality and modern education. President Nursultan Nazarbayev has set a high bar to the domestic education. It should become a competitive, high-quality, so that graduates of  Kazakh school could easily continue their education in foreign universities. The most important strategic task of education is keeping the best Kazakh educational traditions and providing the school graduates an international qualification and capacities to develop their linguistic consciousness, based on — to master the state, native and foreign languages.

Nowadays, multicultural education in the Republic of Kazakhstan is one of the main trends in the system of higher education. It is university which is considered as a main stage in the process of formation and development of multicultural and competitive personality. It is the stage when values and life principles are cognitively formed. Only university is able to provide positive environment to a student which provides harmonic combination of development of humanistic features in a person with an opportunity of full realization of its national, cultural and ethnical needs. According to the objectives set in state program on education development of the RK for 2011-2020 years by President of the Republic of Kazakhstan and cultural program “Language trinity” which says all Kazakhstani citizens will have to acquire 95% Kazakh language, 25% Russian language and 25% English language by 2020.

The realization of multilingual education requires expansion of educational area, experience exchange, improvement of linguistic capital of Kazakhstani people and formation of multilingual and competitive personality which can function effectively in conditions of globalization and pluralistic democratic society.

I am, as an English teacher, fully support this idea. Moreover, I absolutely agree that we need to teach and adapt children from an early age. Properly planned lessons play an important role in teaching and learning process. For teaching young learners I would like to advise the following system, which can give a positive effect to obtaining the language:

Ø Icebreakers, warmers and fillers

Ø First Steps in Teaching Children

Ø Songs and Games

Ø Learning Styles

Ø Syllabus and Lesson Planning

Ø Classroom Management

The teacher of English

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