Gabdulkhakov V.F., Shishova E.O., Zinnurova A.F. The development of thinking in older preschoolers as the ability to reason in conditions of bilingualism
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Abstract
The relevance of the article’s subject is due to the need to develop bilingual children’s thinking in their second language – Russian. Reasoning is one of the forms (units) of thinking. We assumed that if, during the acquaintance of children with the works of children’s literature, an analysis of the structure of reasoning is carried out – to determine the main idea (thesis), the type of connection of arguments (sequential, parallel, mixed), to find (and formulate) a conclusion, to distinguish between full and abbreviated reasoning, to use special (lexical) means of connecting parts of reasoning – then the efficiency of reproducing the text heard and discussed, the quality of constructing one’s own reasoning will increase significantly.
The purpose of the article is to show the results of a study on the implementation of the methodology of working on reasoning in the process of familiarizing older preschoolers with works of children’s literature. Reasoning is understood as a unit of thinking, as a compositional form of speech, a functional type of speech that is more characteristic of the scientific style of speech, but is also present in fiction in the form of an author’s view, an author’s assessment and an author’s interpretation of facts.
The course of the study. The pedagogical experiment was conducted on the basis of preschool institutions of the Republic of Tatarstan, in which children learn two languages – Russian and Tatar. At the same time, Tatar is their native language. The experiment took place in 2020-2022. The data obtained were compared with control groups in which no work on reasoning was carried out. The total number of subjects was 476 children of senior preschool age (236 in experimental groups, 240 in control groups). Russian Russian literature In a pedagogical experiment, we tried to focus children’s attention on the structural features of reasoning in works of Russian fiction, to use the identified features in the construction of children’s own statements-reasoning in Russian.
The results of the study turned out to be significant: there are practically no changes in the number of correctly constructed arguments in the control groups, in the experimental groups there is a significant increase (on average by 30%). This proved the positive effect of working on the structure of reasoning.
Conclusion. The results of the study convince that the work on the development of bilingual children’s abilities to reason in Russian should be connected with the definition of the main idea of the work of art, with the identification of arguments proving the main idea of the author, with the formulation of the conclusion that the author wanted to convey to the reader. In this regard, it is recommended to: teach children to find and build a complete reasoning (thesis, proof, conclusion) that explains the ideological content of a fairy tale or story; identify brief (or abbreviated) arguments in literary texts, explain which parts of it and why they are abbreviated; find consistent, parallel and mixed connection of arguments in the arguments and independently build in their statements; use special reference words to connect the thesis with arguments, arguments with the conclusion; offer children tasks, exercises aimed at constructing their own reasoning on various topics.
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