Concept of “Cultural Identity” of Komi-Permyak Student Bilingual Personality in the Focus of Linguistic Methodology

• Main Author: Natalia V. Medvedeva
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) 2020-12-01
• Series: Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices
• Subjects: cultural identity; bicultural and bilingual environment; national russian bilingual; bilingual personality
• Online Access: http://journals.rudn.ru/polylinguality/article/viewFile/23172/17956

The attention is paid to the concept of ‘bilingual personality’ in relation to national Russian bilingual in the article. The concept of ‘cultural identity’ of Komi-Permyak student bilingual personality in conditions of higher pedagogical education is specified. Foundations for Komi-Permyak student bilingual cultural identity defining are determined in the system of ethno- and social coordinates and its results are described. The aim of the research is to concretize the concept of ‘bilingual personality’ of a Komi-Permyak student. Indicators of his cultural identity in the system of ethno- and socio-coordinates are defined. This is the basis for modeling the teaching and forming the personality of the future teacher of the Russian language at the university from the perspective of modern approaches developed in linguistic and methodical teaching of the Russian language in the context of national-Russian bilingualism. The methods of the research are cultural identity of a Komi-Permyak student defining based on the included observation, questioning, interviewing of future teachers of the Russian language in conditions of higher pedagogical education, method of the results scaling in the process of statistical data processing. The results of the research indicate that bilingual personality cultural identity defining of a KomiPermyak student reveals his identification peculiarities, determines how he is integrated in the Russian culture, how harmonious the Russian language is for his communication, that undoubtedly should be taken into account in teaching. Future teacher forming on the basis of his cultural identity is determined by the goals and objectives of preparing for training students in bilingual and bicultural Komi-PermyakRussian environment. This undoubtedly requires organization of work in line with modern linguistic and methodological approaches, cognitive orientation strengthening in the development of the Russian language as science. Komi-Permyak bilingual communicative results forming in speech professional communication in Russian is impossible without cognitive processes development.