Multilingual Education in the Teacher Training Master Course “Multilingual Technologies of Early Childhood Development” (Kazan Federal University)

Abstract

This article represents a description of the teacher-training Master course “Multilingual Technologies of Early Childhood Development” (Kazan Federal University), aimed at guiding specialists in the field of multilingual preschool education. The focus is to emphasize the importance of multilingual education in the bilingual background of Tatarstan (Russian and Tatar languages), to outline the main directions of these master course, the specialities of its post-graduates and the skills they master during their course. To be specific, the description of one course is provided to give the clear idea of this academic programme and the opportunities students get, having opted for it. The article raises several significant problems: teaching ESL (English as a second language) in the bilingual environment, teaching English to young children, teaching English to children with developmental disorders using computer applications in teaching, introducing corresponding online course in university education.