Сommunicative Model of Multilingual Education
The article presents a model of teaching four foreign languages. The languages obligatory for learning are English and German. The student then chooses the languages of distant cultures, for example, Chinese and Czech, Japanese and Polish, Turkish and Serbian, etc. The teaching materials are course books from Germany while methods of teaching foreign languages are Russian and take into account personal characteristics and abilities of the students. Original German material is borrowed from other sources including the Internet. In the first two years, classes are given by two highly skilled teachers who aim to show the common features of English and German as the languages belonging to the same Germanic group. In the next two years students analyze the differences of distant cultures, with reference to the languages they choose for learning, as language constitutes part of culture. The suggested model has a universal character and can be used in any type of educational institutions. After finishing the course, graduates have skills to teach the respective languages as well as to translate and interpret from and into them.