FORMATION OF MULTILINGUAL LINGUISTIC PERSONALITY WITHIN THE CONTEMPORARY PROCESS OF HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM

The issues of formation of a new type of professional linguistic
personality within multilingual mental and education discourse of
Kazakhstan’s three languages education system are the subjects
of this research.
Education system of the Republic of Kazakhstan is in the process
of significant transformations. With the adoption of the State
program of education development of the Republic of Kazakhstan
the sphere of education has turned into a new level of
development and functioning in which complex polylinguistic
education approach is of great importance. One of the key aspects
of such reforms is the multilingual policy of education; according
to this policy every citizen of Kazakhstan should know at least
three languages: Kazakh, Russian and English.
The problem of professional education of multilingual specialist
needs to be examined in detailed and complex way; first of all
due to social needs of society where multilingual specialists in
different spheres of professional activities are of great demand in
constantly changing labour market. Secondly, the problem of
theoretical and practical approbation of educational methodical
approach in the terms of education modernization is currently
essential. In the third pace is the problem of finding out the
relevant criteria of professional linguistic competence for further
interdisciplinary approach development, and criteria of
knowledge quality evaluation. Fourthly, the lack of unified
concept of multilingual education for non-linguistic specialists
that could unify the results of contemporary research in the field
of linguistic, psychological, sociolinguistic, didactic bases of
multilingualism, higher education pedagogy and foreign language
methodical training in higher education system.
As the modern university practice shows, in today’s educational
programs the requirements of potential employers for language
competence of graduates are increasingly taken into account.
According to many experts, in modern conditions it is the labour
market that determines the requirements of education level and
criteria of professional language competence for graduates. The
existing of at least three languages (Kazakh, Russian and English)
in the context of contemporary educational system in Kazakhstan
let us speak about the state language policy focused on the idea of
multilingual citizenship of the Republic of Kazakhstan as one of
the factors of social and economic modernization. That is why
today the issues related to the development of intercultural
oriented technology with the study of the multilingual
phenomenon, the definition of competencies of the language
personality, the creation of pedagogical conditions for the use of
modern educational technologies and the organization of
personality-oriented strategies aimed at the formation of a
multilingual personality are highly relevant.
Taking into account the mentioned tasks and the initial statements
the following research methods were used, including: analysis of
linguistic and methodological literature, modelling and synthesis
of empirical material, generalization of pedagogical experience,
observation, questioning and interviewing.
The methodological basis of the study consists of psychological,
linguodidactic studies that reveal the importance of
multilingualism, multiculturalism, trilingualism, the formation of
a secondary linguistic personality, a professional linguistic
personality, and the multilingual competence of students. In the
works by foreign and Kazakhstan’s linguists, pedagogues and
methodologists on the problem of the study, professional-oriented
learning and the competence-activity approach are considered as
a theoretical and methodological basis for optimizing the process
of learning languages in higher education system.
Contemporary changes in the style of professional thinking, the
presence of a student-oriented approach, the use of project
technologies, the humanization of educational content and other
processes determine the leading ideas and trends in the
development of modern higher education. The goal of higher
education is not just narrow profile training, but a general
cultural, socially and personally significant continuous
development of a specialist, the formation of his/her professional
culture. Consequently, in modern social and human sciences, it is
important to pay more attention to linguistics, linguodidactics
along with the issue of professional linguistic personality,
consciousness, world language picture, acting as a conductor of
professional knowledge in the formation of the communicative
competence of a specialist. The need to specify the professional
language competence of students of higher educational
institutions, the development of learning technologies in the
process of forming professional-communicative competence is
focused on, and recommendations are given on the development
and implementation these methods in the educational process.
Due to the results of surveys (questionnaires) of employees and
participant observation method, the main motives and goals of
studying Kazakh, Russian and English by future business
specialists were found out; the opinion of employers regarding
the demand for graduates with knowledge of three languages and
the existing level of language knowledge among specialists were
revealed.
The focus of Kazakhstan’s linguistic and methodical sciences is a
comprehensive study of the mechanisms (ways, methods, means,
resources) of forming a multilingual and multicultural
professional-oriented personality, combining important
components of qualification: professional-oriented, intercultural,
communicative and linguistic (taking into account three
languages: Kazakh, Russian and English) competences.
Keywords: professional linguistic personality, education
reforms, multilingualism, competence approach