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Invariant Model of Polylingual Education
- Authors: Yalalov F.G.1,2
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Affiliations:
- Institute of Tatar Encyclopedia and Regional Studies of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences
- Tolstoy Institute of Philology and Intercultural Communication of Kazan Federal University
- Issue: Vol 17, No 2 (2020)
- Pages: 157-167
- Section: Languages in contact
- URL: https://journals.rudn.ru/polylinguality/article/view/24069
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.22363/2618-897X-2020-17-2-157-167
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The article is devoted to the implementation of citizens’ language rights in the field of education in accordance with the requirements of Federal Law No. 317-FZ of August 3, 2018. Under the new law, Russian citizens significantly expanded their rights to choose educational programs in their native language, as well as to choose the languages of training and education in a comprehensive school. After analyzing the content of UNESCO’s definition of polylingual education, the author of the article identifies two interrelated meanings in it. On this basis, polylingual education implies, firstly, the studying and teaching at least three languages at a school, and secondly, the organization of a single, focused process of training and education in at least three languages. Based on the materials of the language picture of the Republic of Tatarstan, the author presents a line of language learning which is invariant for multilingual regions of Russia, and also outlines the prospects for using three languages in the education system.
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Farit G. Yalalov
Institute of Tatar Encyclopedia and Regional Studies of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences; Tolstoy Institute of Philology and Intercultural Communication of Kazan Federal University
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Email: yalalov51@mail.ru
Doctor of Education, Professor, Deputy Director of Science at the Institute of Tatar Encyclopedia and Regional Studies of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences, Professor of the Department of Tatarism and Cultural Studies at the Tolstoy Institute of Philology and Intercultural Communication of Kazan Federal University
56, Pushkin St., Kazan, 420015, Russian Federation; 2, Tatarstan St., Kazan, 420021, Russian FederationReferences
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