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PLURILINGUAL EDUCATION: LANGUAGE LEARNING AT
KINDERGARTENS
XAYTIMBETOVA NILUFAR
Student of the group 2203 Supervisor: Avilova
Khalida Uzbekistan State University of World
Languages
Abstract: Nowadays President Sh. Mirziyoyev has approved a number of laws in
the field offoreign languages teaching. He said’’ It was time to launch a robust new
system for teaching and learning foreign languages for the future’’.
Plurilingual education Teaching and learning in other languages is the title of an action-
research aimed at verifying and evaluating CLIL effectiveness, as well as some problems
and solutions to the teaching and learning of foreign languages.
Keywords: Learning foreign languages, teaching, preschool education,
secondary school, method ofpicture , method of gesture, method of speaking, method of
listening, method of reading, method of writing
First of all let us define the meaning of the words teaching and learning. Teaching
and learning is a process that involves many people. Teaching and learning is the most
important thing in people life. Teaching is the process of paying attention to people’s
needs, feelings, and taking special measures to help them learn particular things. In my
mind, first of all, it is better to start teaching students based on their needs, interests and
desires. Then the imagination of the students is only in the classroom, with nothing else
in their minds. In the last few years it has become necessary to learn foreign languages.
It can be called self - development. At the current time, foreign language teaching is very
widely developed not only in schools or universities but also in pre-school education. For
example, kindergartens teach at least three foreign languages. It should also be noted that
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each case has its own set of difficulties and shortcomings. In this article, I would like to
share some information for teaching children in kindergarten. Kindergarten students are
different from school students in that stud ents learn foreign languages from books, and
children in kindergarten learn from them through communication. Since the main activity
of kindergarten children type of game , it is better to use the type of game in teaching
them foreign languages. As an example, greetings and farewells should be expressed in
simple words. They also need to teach their toys in a foreign language. When giving a
simple ball to the children it is necessary to say in a foreign languages whether its colour
is large or small in a shape. It is good to use pictures to teach things so that children will
be interested in their imagination. Cartoons are a much -needed help in teaching children
foreign languages because children watch cartoons over and over again, so cartoons solve
many of the problems of teaching children foreign languages in less than a watt. During
my research, I have compared the methodology of teaching foreign languages in
kindergartens in Uzbekistan with kindergartens in China, and we have a number of
problems. Firstly, there are many new mass multimedia tools widely used in the field of
education in China. The Chinese use gestures very widely in teaching kindergarten
children and the result is very effective. The competitions between children are very
important because it is necessary to form in children a sense of competition from an early
age. The Chinese think that all human interests and aspirations come from competition.
Moreover, in Chinese kindergarten, a group has about ten or twelve students, and
educator regularly nurtures and educates each children based on his or her little
psychology. One of the shortcomings of the education system in Uzbekistan is the
excessive number of children in one group. In my view, it is more effective to use the
methods of advanced countries in the education system.
Learning can be defined as the activity or process of gaining knowledge or skill
by studying, practising, being taught, or experiencing something. Learning is not about
what students do, but about what we do as teachers.(picture 1) The words learning and
teaching are synonymous with each other. Today, students face many problems in
organizing foreign languages. They have difficulty speaking , writing essays, listening,
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and they make many mistakes in tests. Based on my life experience, the main problem in
learning languages is to spend less time for learning, that is, students need to know how
to spend time properly. I would like to cite some principles in foreign languages learning:
1)
Learning at the centre.
2)
The social nature of learning .
3)
Emotions are integral to learning.
4)
Compete with all students.
5)
Assessment for learning.
6)
Establish horizontal connections.
7)
Recognising individual differences.
8)
One must work hard on oneself.
It is preferable to use different methods in learning foreign languages. As an
example, I would like to cite Martin Parrott’s strategies of learning as a result of my
research. His method is divided into four subgroups. These are:
1)
METACOGNITIVE - these relate to the planning and overall organisation of
the language learning experience, and entail making choices from a repertoire of options
including choices about which other strategies to use in a particular situation and for a
particular purpose. For example, learners employ metacognitive strategies when decide
to use a dictionary to research the language needed to perform a particular task, or when
they choose to focus on contextual clues to ignore unfamiliar language whose meaning is
not derivable from context. These, in a sense, are the most sophisticated strategies in that
they involve knowledge of language learning behaviour, and of the options available to
the learner.
2)
COGNITIVE - These involve the direct experience of learning .For example,
learners employ cognitive strategies when they consciously apply learned rules in order
to construct an utterance or when they focus on contextual clues to understand the
meaning of unfamiliar language.
3)
SOCIAL - These involve creating opportunities for using language.
4)
. COMMUNICATIVE - These involve achieving communication, often when
there is a need to use or understand language which is unknown.
In my conclusion, it is natural that learning foreign languages can be difficult,
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but if you go further in spite of the hardships, the problems will be solved by themselves
and you will achieve your goal in the end.
Used literature
1)
Martin Parrott: Tasks for Language Teachers .Cambridge University Press 1993.
2)
Merriam- Webster dictionary.
3)
Ziyatova, N., Nurmuhamedova, N., & Xakimbayeva, O. K. (2022, July). INGLIZ
VA O’ZBEK TILLARIDA IBORALI QO’SHMA SO’ZLAR YASALISHIDA
METONIMIYANING O’RNI. In Международная конференция академических
наук (Vol. 1, No. 24, pp. 39-42).
