The work raises problems about the possibility of extrapolating the effects of bilingualism to trilingualism at primary school age, about the increase/decrease in cognitive regulation in bilingual children in the process/result of their acquisition of other languages. The purpose of the pilot study is to identify opportunities in cognitive regulation among primary bilingual schoolchildren in the educational situation of learning a third language. The study involved second grade schoolchildren (N=60) aged from 8 to 9.8 years (M=8.8, SD=0.36), among them with unbalanced bilingualism (N=30, 15 boys, 15 girls ) from the national Udmurt gymnasium; monolinguals with their native Russian language (N=30, 13 boys, 17 girls) from a secondary school in Izhevsk, Udmurt Republic.
To measure the components of cognitive regulation, the following were used: test battery NEPSY-II (children’s version in printed form): “Repetition of sentences”, “Memory for construction”, “Inhibition”; computer test samples of the software of the psychologist’s toolkit “Practice – MSU”: Stroop Test, Shulte Tables, Memory for geometric shapes, Go-NoGo. The main statistical method for analyzing empirical research data is structural modeling (structural equation modeling).
The results of the pilot study show a possible syncretic (mixed) effect of bilingualism in the process of mastering a third language by primary schoolchildren with the need to control it in the educational situation. We assume that bilingualism in the educational situation of learning a third language, as a predictor of cognitive changes, provides advantages in the self-organization of subsystems of regulatory processes at the cognitive level and, at the same time, creates difficulties due to the high regulatory load.
Keyword(s) : bilingualism
Speech Portrait of Children of the Indigenous People of the North in the Process of Teaching Mathematics
The article presents a scientific description of the collective speech portrait of primary school
students in the process of teaching mathematics in rural educational institutions located in the
places of the indigenous people of the North, Siberia and the Far East of the Russian Federation.
The material for the scientific description of the speech portrait in the context of bilingualism was
the results of studies conducted in 4 regions of Russia: the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), the Republic
of Buryatia, the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug –
Yugra. In total, the study covered 165 respondents (students, teachers and parents). During the
study, the scientific literature and statistical data on the studied regions were analyzed. There were
such research methods as observation, conversation, interviews, questionnaires, transcription of
audio recordings, quantitative and qualitative analysis of oral and written works. The theoretical and
methodological basis of the study was the work of scientists devoted to the problems of linguistic
personality, speech portrait, the formation and development of mathematical speech. When
creating a speech portrait, sociocultural, sociolinguistic, psychological-pedagogical, ethnolinguistic
factors influencing the development of oral and written mathematical speech were taken into
account. Audio recordings of oral speech and written test papers of students were also analyzed.
The collective speech portrait was described on the basis of an integrated approach involving
socio-psycholinguistic characteristics, descriptions of the levels of development of oral and written
mathematical speech, as well as features of speech culture in formal and informal communication.
The results of the study can provide methodological assistance in organizing educational activities
for the development of mathematical speech.