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Background. The relevance of the article is related to the increase in the number of violations of the logic of Russian speech of senior preschool children in a multilingual environment, with the lack of development of methodological techniques for identifying these violations and correcting them in the process of familiarization with works of children’s literature in different languages.

Objectives. To demonstrate linguo-methodological techniques for analyzing presuppositions that determine the logic of speech (correctness of word order, their compatibility, sequence in a sentence), as well as techniques for determining the degree of logical connection of words in Russian texts obtained as a result of their translation by older preschool children from Tatar, English and Chinese; to develop methodological recommendations for working on the logic of children’s Russian speech in a multilingual environment.

Sample. The study (2020-2024) analyzed 333 children’s texts: in Russian — 84, in English — 82, in Tatar — 84, in Chinese — 83.

Methods. The following methods were used: linguistic and psycholinguistic methods of text analysis, identification of presupposition, determination of the degree of logical connection of words in a sentence, mathematical processing of the research results; pedagogical experiments, translation and comparative analysis of texts.

Results. The results of the study were: methodological interpretation of the features of presupposition in Russian, Tatar, English, Chinese; methodological procedures for analyzing the logic of children’s Russian speech in a multilingual environment (analysis of presupposition, degree of logical connection) in children’s Russian speech adapted to the tasks of preschool education; linguodidactic interpretation of the obtained data; methodological recommendations for working on the logic of Russian speech in a multilingual environment.

Conclusions. The study concludes that in order to form the logic of children’s Russian speech, overcome logical anomalies in it, and increase the degree of logical connection, various linguo-methodological techniques are needed to overcome the interfering (negative) influence of a second or third language on Russian speech; promising areas of pedagogical research in the context of developing multilingualism may be technologies for developing children’s speech by means of digital content.

Relevance of the article. The development of emotional intelligence allows a person to successfully respond to the challenges facing him during his life. The need for the development of emotional intelligence is also confirmed by the documents regulating the sphere of preschool education. Developed emotional intelligence is also very important for the future of successful schooling, adaptation and building communication. The article presents the results of a theoretical study devoted to the problems of the formation of emotional intelligence in the field of language education of preschool children.

Research progress. Studies devoted to the problem of determining the essence and structure of emotional intelligence are analyzed. The analysis showed the importance of this type of work with preschoolers in teaching foreign languages, and also allowed to identify and describe the prerequisites for the development of emotional intelligence at an early stage of mastering a foreign language. The relevance of developing a problem in early foreign language teaching in accordance with the Federal State Educational Standard of Preschool Education, which sets tasks related to ensuring the social and communicative development of a preschool child, the formation of independence, purposefulness and self-regulation of their own actions; development of social and emotional intelligence, emotional responsiveness, empathy.

The results of the study. The development of emotional intelligence is one of the key components of the child’s psyche, which ensures the formation of his personality in ontogenesis and subsequent successful functioning in society. The priority of practical learning goals existing in the methodology of early foreign language teaching, suggesting a certain pragmatic orientation of the pedagogical process – the formation in a preschool child, first of all, of the ability to speak the language being studied and understand the speech of the interlocutor, does not allow to properly implement the requirement to ensure the development of emotional intelligence in preschool children.

Conclusions. The analysis of studies of the relationship between emotional intelligence and communicative properties, skills and abilities of the individual has shown that the development of emotional intelligence is especially organically integrated into the process of learning English. It is necessary for effective communication and develops in the best way within it, through the development of its speech competencies, through the improvement of the system of language means of the native and foreign languages assimilated by him, and along with the solution of educational and subject-related learning tasks, contributes to the implementation of one of the most effective approaches to teaching foreign languages – the communicative approach.

The relevance of the topic of the article. In the national regions of Russia, the speech of bilingual children is characterized by a large number of errors: it is characterized, on the one hand, by language interference, when the laws of the native language negatively affect the second (Russian), on the other hand, by figurative interference, when the figurative meaning of literary images is native culture comes into conflict with the images and meanings of Russian literature. These interferences negatively affect not only Russian speech, but also thinking, memory, intelligence, – all cognitive and regulatory functions of children. Educators do not always understand what techniques should be used to overcome the negative impact of these interferences.

The aim of the study. The work is aimed at analyzing the speech of bilingual children, to identify typical speech and semantic errors caused by the influence of linguistic and figurative interference on the Russian speech of children, to determine effective techniques for overcoming interference. The question is posed that such techniques can be techniques for the formation of a child’s linguistic personality, developed in linguodidactics. The assumption is tested that these techniques – with the installation on language and figurative meaning - with a certain sequence, can have the effect of neurocognitive influence, that is, ensure the formation of correct Russian speech in a shorter time.

Description of the research progress. In the course of the study (2019–2021), 257 statements of bilingual children of the senior and preparatory groups (6–7 years old) were analyzed. In this study, 125 children belonged to the group of children with autistic disorders, 132 – to the group of ordinary bilingual children. 32 teachers of preschool institutions of Tatarstan took part in the study.

Research results. It has been observed that children suffering from language interference are more susceptible to figurative interference. The more their Russian speech is subject to linguistic interference, the more it is subject to figurative interference. Figurative interference is a contradictory association connected with cultures that have the same symbolism, but different meanings in different languages and cultures. Autistic children, who are just as bilingual as ordinary children, make mistakes associated with the manifestation of interference much more than ordinary children. In both groups, interference errors in Russian characterize more than half of all children. A sequence of linguodidactic techniques was determined, which included verbal-semantic techniques, techniques of repetition of a speech pattern, techniques of the communicative core, techniques of transposition, techniques of storytelling, interpretation of figurative means, techniques of creative retelling, techniques of theatricalization, motivational-pragmatic feedback techniques. This sequence provided the effect of neurocognitive influence and turned out to be more effective in comparison with traditional methodological techniques.

Conclusion. The data obtained indicate that the linguodidactic techniques implemented in a certain sequence can be called neurocognitive: they help to overcome the negative influence of linguistic and imaginative interference. Such techniques are based on the principles of empathy, reflection, anticipatory synthesis, the communicative core and act with a certain frequency, fixing linguistic and figurative symbols.

Relevance (context) of the topic of the article. Speech development is a key factor in the academic success of students. Reading and writing as types of speech activity are metalinguistic competencies that provide students of all levels of education with the assimilation of the content of academic disciplines, communication and influencing further socialization. Therefore, the issues of timely mass diagnostics of speech development disorders in modern children are becoming more relevant. The article examines the domestic and world experience in the diagnosis of speech disorders, including the use of screenings for assessing the risks of speech and psychological development; the changes in the system of dispensary speech therapy observation of children that have occurred in Russia over the past 10 years are analyzed, models of psychological and pedagogical support of children with speech disorders are described.

The aim of the article is to describe a model of a standardized two-stage speech screening procedure; to present the content of the first stage, the algorithm for its implementation and the analysis of the results of the primary approbation of the questionnaire for assessing speech development in 7-year-old children.

Description of the research progress. The study was conducted in 15 educational organizations in Moscow in 2020-2021. Based on modern ideas about the child’s speech development, a questionnaire was developed to assess speech development and tested in preschool groups with 686 children aged 7 years-7 years and 3 months. The main research methods are observation, questionnaire, methods of mathematical statistics.

The results of the study. A questionnaire for assessing the speech development of a 7-year-old child is presented, which allows identifying students who need logoscreening (stage 2) and differentiated help from a speech therapist teacher. Statistical data on speech disorders in this age group were obtained.

Conclusion. It is concluded that it is important to conduct two-stage speech screening in critical periods of development, and an algorithm for its testing is proposed. The advantages of the screening system for the selection of children in need of psychological and pedagogical support for the executive authorities in the field of education, educational organizations and the child are indicated. 

This article presents the linguistic and narrative development of Tatar-Russian bilingual children. The issues of narrative development in Tatar-Russian bilingual preschool children have not been investigated so far, and this is the first attempt to analyze children’s abilities to construct narratives in both languages.

The aim of the work is to analyze the narratives of Tatar-Russian bilingual children and to show their lexical richness using the ratio of lexeme types (TTR) and average sentence length in the narratives. Thus, we plan to find out which language is dominant in bilingual children.

The study involved 2 groups of children aged 4–5 and 5–6 (10 children in each group) who had to compose narratives in both languages – Tatar as a native language and Russian as a second language – by looking at two series of pictures. The total number of stories analyzed was 40 – 20 in Russian and 20 in Tatar. The Tatar language was tested by a native speaker – teacher of a Tatar language at the kindergarten and the testing in Russian was done by one of the authors who is Russian speaking. All the narratives were recorded, transcribed and analyzed in both languages.

Results showed that the children have Russian as a dominant language. However, often narrating in Russian the children were using Tatar words, which show that their vocabulary is not so rich. The knowledge of the children in Tatar language is limited. They vocabulary and the number of sentences per story were limited.

The study, although limited, gives us an inside view the pragmatic aspect of the language of the Tatar -Russian bilingual children. In order to develop balanced bilingualism among the children it is not enough to have few hours lessons in the kindergarten. It is known that the development of the narrative abilities by children in generally is a good bridge to their literacy in primary classes. It is important their narrative abilities to be developed in both languages. Some American and European researchers found out recently that parents reading books in the mother tongue of bilingual children helps them to acquire the literacy in their second language. 

Relevance. Research on the narratives of bilingual children is extremely important, as it shows the child’s full linguistic competence, which in turn will allow teachers and educators to choose the appropriate program.

The purpose of this article is to analyze the narratives of Russian-Swedish billing children. The author examines both mistakes (or “innovations”) and strategies that are used by children with a lack of lexical and / or grammatical means. An attempt will also be made to explain the cause of the observed phenomena.

Description of the research progress. The study involved 25 Russian-Swedish bilingual’s children aged from 4.5 years to 9.2 years. The material for this study was collected using a specially developed tool for collecting narratives Litmus MAIN (The Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives). In addition to storytelling from pictures, spontaneous speech data and ethnolinguistic observations were collected.

Results. The study showed that many children were unfamiliar with the Russian equivalent of Swedish words and often used gestures when they did not know the word. Swedish was often used for metalinguistic comments and questions. Children were prone to lexical innovation and changing the meaning of words. They often mixed synonyms or lexical units close in meaning or sound. Children with weak Russian language had cases of transfer, as well as the following grammatical errors: incorrect case endings, mistakes in choosing the verb gender, the use of an incorrect preposition and case form, errors in using an accusative instead of a locative and errors in the form of a verb.

Conclusion. Considering the features of children’s narratives, the author shows how the lack of input and dominant language affects their stories. Since language acquisition in Sweden takes place in a specific context, the input is often limited to situations that the child encounters in daily life. In this regard, parents and teachers of their native language need to find more opportunities to practice the Russian language. It is necessary to create language situations in which children will want to talk about what happened to them. It is important for parents and teachers to try to motivate the child to tell it in Russian, to find time to play together, listen to the child, engage in joint activities and help find lexical means to express their thoughts.

The article discusses the factors that affect the development of speech in older preschool children, and the place the educational environment takes in this process. A brief overview of the history of the concept of educational environment in Russian and foreign pedagogy and educational psychology is given.

Aim of the study. The method of assessing the educational environment CLASS is considered, such a component of the CLASS methodic as methodological support is analyzed. On the other hand, the authors give a brief description of the child’s language development up to the senior preschool age and conclude that for the most effective assessment of speech development at this age, it is necessary to use elicited narratives (that is, stories told by the child based on a series of pictures). The literature overview of the interrelations between the educational environment quality and the child’s speech development showed that contradictory data were obtained. The hypothesis of this study was the assumption that such a parameter of the educational environment as Methodological support would affect the development of speech in older preschool children.

Sample. The study involved 261 preschoolers (49,4% of boys) aged 5–6 years, pupils of 26 senior groups of kindergartens in Moscow. To test the hypothesis, two groups of preschool educational institutions were identified using the Mann-Whitney test: with high and low quality of methodological support, and then, using ANOVA, the speech parameters of children from these two groups were compared.

Results. As a result of the study, for the first time in the Russian sample, the results were obtained that well-organized methodological support in a preschool educational institution contributes to the better development of both lexical and grammatical indicators of speech and the ability to compose a coherent statement (narrative). The article draws conclusions both about the limitations of the conducted study and about possible ways for further research.

Background. The need to counteract the entropy of the linguistic personality in a bilingual environment. The problem lies in the fact that teachers do not always understand which pedagogical technologies can counteract the entropy of the linguistic personality of a child of preschool and primary school age, which technologies can be used to work on the development of children’s speech in a bilingual environment.

Objective. To show the results of a study on the use of technologies to counteract the entropy of the linguistic personality of preschool and primary school age children in conditions of bilingualism. The entropy of a linguistic personality is the loss by a bilingual child of previously formed verbal-semantic (bilingual), cognitive (national-cultural), motivational-pragmatic (functional – communicative, creative, etc.) competencies.

Methods. The following research methods were used: questionnaires, testing, pedagogical supervision, checking the performance of grammatical and communicative tasks using traditional methods of analysis and neural network (artificial intelligence), mathematical processing of results.

Results. Test and questionnaire surveys of kindergarten teachers (1348 respondents) and primary school teachers (1368 respondents) showed the predominance of three groups of technologies in the practice of educational activities of preschool institutions and primary schools – integrated, disintegrated (or parallel), and communicative. All these technologies are technologies of negentropy (counteraction) to irreversible destructive phenomena in the bilingual communicative activities of children. These technologies maintain a certain balance and ensure the development of bilingual, ethnic, and functional competence of children. It was found that the children’s functional literacy is significantly influenced by the subject, the ultimate goal of which is to master coherent speech (in the form of text or dialogical unity). Coherent speech, formed at preschool age, remains the basic foundation for elementary school and is least susceptible to entropy.

Conclusions. The results of the study suggest that in working on the prerequisites of functional literacy in kindergarten and on functional literacy in primary school, we must not forget about children’s knowledge and ideas in the subject area of language and communications: subject literacy is an important condition for working on functional literacy. The realization of this condition contributes to the maximum self-realization and development of a linguistic personality in the bilingual, national-cultural, and functional spheres. Therefore, technologies for the formation of subject literacy must take into account the requirements of functional literacy. Functional literacy itself should not be considered in isolation from the subject. Partial programs, technologies, and didactic materials for the formation of a child’s linguistic personality in a bilingual environment can become promising areas of pedagogical research.