TRILINGUALISM AS AN OPTIMISING EDUCATIONAL FACTOR OF MASTERING A SECOND FOREIGN LANGUAGE WITHIN THE FORMAT OF COMPETENCE-BASED APPROACH

Abstract

The article reveals the concept of the educational phenomenon of trilingualism as an appropriate method of teaching the second foreign language at secondary school, acting as a factor of its optimization in achieving the efficiency of its mastering. The article analyzes psycholinguistic and psychophysiological features of trilingual personality’s development as a possible means of realizing the transference of knowledge and skills from both the mother tongue and the first foreign languages. The article describes and substantiates the methodological significance of facilitation and interference as a technique of teaching the second foreign language. Due to the globalization and the tendency to integration into the world space the role and place of subordinate trilingualism are defined as the aim and means (methodological technique) of formation a fully developed personality of a new level, speaking at least 2 foreign languages, a trilingualman, within the framework and context of the modern educational system’s requirements for realization established social order.