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The relevance of the topic of the article is due to the need to develop competencies in bilingual children related to the construction of original texts in a second language. We assumed that if children explore the mechanisms for constructing coherent speech in different languages, compare the features of their implementation in these languages, independently carry out transposition (positive transfer of coinciding schemes for organizing coherent speech) and overcome interference (divergent schemes for constructing a coherent text), then the quality of their bilingual utterances may improve.

The aim of the study is to show the results of a study on the implementation of the technology of research-based learning to build a text (coherent speech). Coherent speech is understood in the article as a text created using the following mechanisms: 1) interphrase communication, 2) consistent implementation of structural and semantic units, 3) linguistic means of stylistic unity.

The pedagogical experiment was carried out on the basis of preschool institutions of the Republic of Tatarstan, in which children learn three languages – Russian, Tatar, English. The experiment took place in 2018-2022. The data obtained were compared with control groups in which such tasks were not used. The total number of subjects was 2427 children of senior preschool age. In the pedagogical experiment, we tried to transform the traditional methodological scheme into a technological one – research, in which children stop playing the passive role of performers and turn into researchers of the structure of the text (the structure of coherent speech). Coherent speech becomes the object of research for children, the subject is the mechanisms for constructing a coherent text in the first, second, sometimes third languages.

The results of the study turned out to be significant: if in the experimental groups the number of children who were able to construct an original text in the second language increased by an average of 50%, then in the control groups by only 3%.

Conclusion. Research-oriented technology for the formation of textual competencies can be used in teaching different languages. This technology stimulates independent search, teaches to compare the features of two languages, independently carry out transposition (positive transfer of the laws of one language to another language), overcome text interference (the negative influence of the laws of one language on another), develops competencies in the analysis and compilation of coherent texts in the native language, second and third languages.

Parents, teachers and researchers are wondering how the digital and technological world affects young children between 0 and 6 years of age at home. This study aims to show the use they make of it, the characteristics of this use, and the relationship that children establish with technologies, as well as to find out whether there are rules for this use and who sets them. A mixed quantitative-qualitative methodology, using the “questionnaire on the use of technology at home”, semi-structured interviews, and analyses of Early Childhood Education Assemblies (ECEA), generated very significant results. For instance, despite the quick incorporation of tablets or video game consoles, TV is still the favorite device of the youngest population, followed closely by mobile phones. The results indicate that these children spend an average of 92 minutes per day watching TV. In addition, 92% of them have a tablet and spend an average of 60 minutes per day using a computer or a tablet. It can be concluded that children start accessing and using ICT at the age of two.

The article presents the results of a study on the integration of children’s reading and playing practices implemented within the framework of the Federal innovation platform – kindergarten No. 8 of the Central District of St. Petersburg on the topic “Designing Practices for the Education of Preschool Children in a Changing Sociocultural Situation”.

The aim of the study was to study the possibilities of enriching the practice of subject-role play of children in various age groups (3-7,5 years) as a result of testing the technology of productive reading when children get acquainted with the modern world bestseller of children’s literature, J. Donaldson “Snail and Whale”. It was found that the technology of productive reading has a high developing potential both for organizing children’s perception of the book and understanding its meaning, and for the natural display read in the conditions of play activity. The monitoring and quality analysis of playing activity of children 3-7,5 years revealed that the implementation of the technology of productive reading with preschool children allows, on the one hand, to consider the game as a way of interpreting literary works and on the other hand, to support the game based on the read.

The obtained results show that the implementation of the research plan contributed to the fact that the development indicators of the children’s game begin to approach the normative in the situation of the “zone of proximal development” and the further accumulation of play practice will contribute to the achievement of the normative indicators of the role-playing game in the “zone of the actual development of children”. It is also important that the reliance on the content and structure of the literary text allows the teacher to feel more confident in situations of play interaction with children, as an adult and a child interact in a single story context.

This paper provides an empirical account of the complex nature of early childhood teachers’ work with growing accountability demands for collecting, reporting, and using child assessment data in the U.S. context. Particularly, this paper focuses on preschool teachers’ experience of changes in their roles and pedagogical work in implementing a criterion-referenced, commercial online child assessment system. In doing so, this paper draws on data from a qualitative research study conducted at four Head Start sites that included semi-structured, individual interviews with six teachers and five child development specialists during three different assessment checkpoint periods; multiple observations of four Head Start classrooms for five months; and an analysis of related documents. The findings from this paper highlight that the use of commercial online childhood assessment system increased and expanded teacher work with additional responsibilities and concomitant change in assessment, curriculum, and pedagogy, as well as their views of themselves as professionals.

Introduction. The article discusses the problem of personal orientation of future teachers for professional activities, theoretically substantiates the need to regulate the interrelated processes of developing regulatory and personal Universal Learning Activities and social and personal competences that affect the formation of intrapersonal motivation for professional activities. The methodological basis of the research is the concept of Universal Learning Activities of A.G. Asmolov, system and competence approaches in higher professional education, subject-humanistic attitude to education.

Purpose of research is to highlight the components of the university educational environment that contribute to the formation of intrapersonal motivation for learning activities though regulation of interrelated processes of developing regulatory and personal Universal Learning Activities and social and personal competencies.

Methods. The following instruments were used in the course of the research: the scale of professional competence assessment of Ferrandes-Berrueco, Reina and Sanchez-Tarazaga; the questionnaire of students’ learning activity of I.S. Labytseva, the methodology of diagnosing students’ motivation for learning of S.M. Ketko, S.A. Pakulina.

Results. The results of the complex diagnostics of professional competencies and motivation of students for learning reveal lack of student activity reflecting social purpose and personal orientation of their professional judgments. The potentials and methodological characteristics of using case technologies are defined with the purpose of developing students’ regulative and personal Universal Learning Activities in the process of continuous pedagogical practice.

Conclusions. Purposeful formation of regulatory and personal Universal Learning Activities with the subsequent development of social and personal competencies is aimed at the enhancement of intrapersonal motivation for learning, personal interest and responsibility towards professional activities. Optimization of the process of professional training of preschool and primary education teachers assumes formation of an educational environment that considers individual motives of everyone’s professional activity in the teamwork.

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.

Relevance. Observing the modern processes taking place in the educational society, it is impossible not to note the marked generation gap and, as a result, the depreciation of cultural ideals and values among young people and the younger generation. The article presents the experience of testing the pedagogical technology “Artifact”, based on the key ideas of the cultural and historical approach and designed to make cultural artifacts the semantic and value core of the educational process of a preschool educational organization.

Progress of the study. The study involved 147 preschoolers aged 4 to 7 years attending preschool educational organizations in Moscow and the Voronezh Region. The study was supposed to design a complex of psychological and pedagogical conditions for the development of a cultural sample by a child through the acquaintance of preschoolers with a cultural artifact, the restoration of cultural meanings and contexts, and to obtain products of children’s creativity (children’s artifacts) created on its basis.

The results of the study. In each age group participating in the study, the original cultural artifacts were identified and based on them, various children’s artifacts with partial or complete reproduction of mastered cultural samples were obtained using the Artifact technology.

Conclusions. A cultural artifact, as an entry point into culture under specially designed psychological and pedagogical conditions, is an object of cognition appropriate to preschool childhood and a source of a cultural sample offered to a child for development in the zone of proximal development. Being a part or the basis of a children’s creative product (children’s artifact), a cultural sample becomes a particle of the culture of the future and an important condition for the formation of a conscious and value-based attitude of the younger generation to cultural heritage. Thus, the Artifact technology has been successfully tested in the conditions of real pedagogical processes in kindergartens and can be recommended for solving problems related to the implementation of a value-oriented component of educational programs and the assignment of traditional Russian values by preschoolers.