Concept of Multilingual Teaching in Yelabuga Institute of Kazan Federal University
The development of the concept of multicultural teaching of a foreign language (FL) has been extremely relevant in the last decades due to the geopolitical situation. Currently, the range of multicultural multilingual communicative situations is expanding, command of several languages not only is of great social and economic importance, but it also allows satisfying the ever-increasing communication needs of modern man. The authors of the article give a generalized description of the concept of multicultural teaching and consider teaching German as a second language (L2) after English in this context applying the following methods: analysis of theoretical literature and practical experience of the German language teachers; participant observation, interviewing. The concept of multilingual teaching FL after complicated periods of formation is strengthening now its position in the world. One of the most intensively studied aspects within the framework of this concept is methodology of trilingual/multilingual teaching German as a second foreign language after English. Scholars both in Europe and Russia are actively and successfully engaged in the research of the given problem. Foreign Languages Faculty at Yelabuga Institute of Kazan Federal University (YI KFU) is actively using the theoretical and practical experience accumulated in this field by foreign and Russian science and develops a new approach which consists in the use of problem-based teaching technologies within the concept of multicultural/trilingual teaching German as a second foreign language after English.