PROBLEMS AND PERSPECTIVES OF MULTILINGUAL EDUCATION IN HIGHER SCHOOL

Abstract

Political, communication and technological transformations in society have involved a huge number of people both in direct and indirect communication. Since globalization enhances intercultural interaction, the study of languages and cultures in the world community becomes the most important part of research. An important linguistic effect of globalization is the selection of a number of languages that are most common in the world community. Today world practice demonstrates the steady prevalence of a small group of languages over all the others. These are the languages that are most often used in various types of communication. The bulk of business correspondence is conducted on them, most of the fiction and scientific literature has been translated into these languages, they are taught in schools and universities around the world. It should be noted that in the twenty-first century, knowledge of only one language is not enough both for economic, social and educational growth. Accordingly, the requirements for education in the field of a foreign language in higher school have changed. This problem concerns not only the education system of Russia, its regions, but also the educational practice of the entire world community, which indicates the relevance, scale and significance of this problem for modern civilization. It is fully manifested in high school and raises the issue of systemic changes in the professional training of future specialists in the field of professional education. It also determines the need to form the readiness of Russian federal and regional university graduates for life and professional activities in an open, democratic post-industrial society, where representatives of different races, nationalities and cultures coexist and interact with each other. Kazan Federal University is an example of our study. The starting point for choosing this subject area is the following: today the main direction of the intellectual development of modern society lies not on the path of linguistic isolation of a particular country from the world around it, but, on the contrary,