GUIDED READING AS A METHOD OF TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGES TO YOUNG LEARNERS IN A POLYLINGUAL SETTING

Abstract

Given that from half to two-thirds of the world's population are bilingual or multilingual, meeting the needs of this target audience is important. Moreover, this study is relevant due to the current situation when a foreign language begins to be mastered already in pre-school age; the early development of foreign language literacy is particularly popular. A problem that requires deep and comprehensive consideration is the search for an effective method of teaching bilingual children, trilinguals, or multilinguals to read at an early age in a natural or artificial multilingual environment. The number of works devoted to methods of teaching foreign languages to children in a multilingual environment is small. The most effective methods of teaching children to read in a purely multilingual environment are also poorly understood. The purpose of the work is to investigate the method of guided reading in teaching a foreign language to preschool children in a multilingual environment. The main methods of work are: the survey method, pedagogical testing, pedagogical experiment, statistical analysis. The results of the study can be used by teachers and parents of children studying in preschool institutions and language centers and living in a multilingual environment; in the development of theoretical and practical courses.