Foreign-Russian Bilingualism in the School System of The Kabardino-Balkarian Republic

Abstract

The article is devoted to the formation of foreign-Russian bilingualism in the education system of Kabardino-Balkaria. The relevance of the problem under consideration is due to the social need for regional bilingualism in a multi-national, multilingual, multicultural republic, which is the CBD, the stable mass character of bilingualism in which is predetermined by the coexistence, cofunctioning of Russian, Kabardian and Balkar languages. The purpose is to consider some trends in the development of bilingualism in the region, since education is the most significant and massively organized sphere of communication that influences the formation of a bilingual personality in a multiethnic and multicultural environment. The paper uses the method of retrospective analysis. Based on the study of the results of all-Union population censuses, which made it possible to trace the dynamics of the formation of foreign-Russian bilingualism, as well as legal and local acts of the Soviet and postSoviet periods that influenced the language situation, the features of the interaction of the Russian language and the languages of the titular peoples of the republic, the factors of the dominance of the Russian language in all functional areas.

Keywords

• bilingualism
• foreign-russian bilingualism
• functional development
• national language policy
• language education
• school education system