PECULIARITIES OF MULTILINGUAL PEDAGOGY DEVELOPMENT BASED ON AXIOLOGICAL APPROACH

Abstract

In the article, the pedagogic problems of bilingual education have been analyzed in the context of the axiological approach. A number of contradictions between the existing state of bilingual education and its objectively necessary level have been revealed. They include the integrative essence of education and the actual disconnection of its components in practice, diversity of the system of bilingual education and its unification in practical activities, the necessity to form teachers’ readiness to work in the conditions of bilingual education and insufficient theoretical and methodological support for this process. It has been established that multilingual pedagogy is an innovative branch of pedagogy, therefore uniform methods, tools and requirements for the development of its theoretical foundations have not been formed in the scientific literature sources yet.
It has been proven that bilingual education as an educational phenomenon involves deep mastery of the native language since the formation of thinking processes takes place precisely within its boundaries. It has been shown that under such circumstances, the role of the axiological approach towards bilingual education has been significantly increased; hence the system of multicultural education has become a very important tool to preserve the orientation value and cultural characteristics of the people. The main advantages and disadvantages of multilingual education are revealed in the process of intercultural education to be directly related to learning a foreign language and is designed to integrate the individual into the system of world culture. Multilingualism implies the desire to achieve mutual understanding in several languages, which involves different types of bilingual education and the main criterion for classification is the idea of preserving or losing one’s native language. It has been found that supporters of cosmopolitanism underestimate the role and importance of the national dimension, since each national language has its own system of thinking tools and the intellectual capabilities of all mankind are concentrated on the national language. At the same time, the unification of the environment leads to the cessation of development and movement and the disappearance of contrasts between countries reflects the deterioration of the socio-ecological thinking of a person. The value orientations in this situation are primarily focused on one’s native language, being respectful towards the language of another country and having a deep understanding of the importance of linguistic means for the purpose of developing intercultural and professional communication.