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crosscultural and social and cultural knowledge subject-oriented models get the relevance in which Russian 
acts as means of studying subject (mathematics, biology, physics, etc.) [3].
Lately in Kazakhstan the problem of multilingual training became an object of careful attention. There 
were adopted the laws on languages, guaranteeing preservation and development of national cultures and 
languages, development and improvement state language (Kazakh) and language of cross-cultural communi-
cation (Russian) and also the social and cultural context concerning learning of foreign language (English, 
German, French) was changed which is demanded in modern society not only as a communication medium, 
but also as the instrument of cognitive and professional activity. The concept of language policy of the Re-
public of Kazakhstan defines Russian as information source in different areas of science and equipment, as 
communication means near and far abroad. In the conditions of globalization and of bipolarity of the modern 
world the role of Russian amplifies which communicative rating is defined by its status of one of the world 
languages. In this regard before Kazakhstan the system of education is staticized the problem of training of 
the bilingual persons capable to provide competitiveness of national economy. In the solution of problems of 
language education the leading role is played by an education system, first of all, system of high comprehen-
sive school. 
Representatives of many ethnos live and cooperate in the multiethnic state of Kazakhstan. Languages of 
these nationalities actively function at the household level, and the Kazakh language is presented at the level 
of the state use. Before considering a language situation, we will stop on features of modern social and cul-
tural conditions of Kazakhstan. Social and cultural, social culture (culture of the social relations) is defined 
by the regulatories, values and ideals causing behavior of people in society and their social relationship. The 
main forms of social culture are moral, legal and political culture.
Values of social culture (mercy, humanity, equality, democracy, a law and order, civil liberty) are real-
ized only in human relations whereas cultural wealth (for example, the maintenance of a work of art) appeals 
to spiritual perfection, enrichment of an inner world of the personality aren't capable to approve in the socie-
ty of behavior standard, providing the movement to the values and ideals proclaimed by them [4]. The words 
«moral», «morals», «ethics» are similar in meaning, but they were in three different languages. The word 
«ethics» — comes from the Greek ethos — temper, character, custom. The word «morals» — a Latin origin 
of mores — customs, customs. Cicero formed from it the word — moralis — moral and moralitas — morals 
which became a Latin equivalent of the Greek words ethical and ethics. And «moral» — the Russian word 
(temper). For the first time it appeared in the Russian dictionary in the XVIII century and began to be used 
along with the words «ethics» and «morals», «the rules defining behavior, spiritual qualities». In practice of 
the word usage they are interchanged. 
The form of social culture is morals, all spheres of human life and activity are subordinated to the moral 
principles, and the mechanism of social culture is the public opinion. The knowledge in the modern society 
turns into the real wealth and into that force which will make shift of the power. As for the language situation 
of the state, it is always directly connected with social, economic, cultural and other processes which proceed 
in society. Language processes are historically caused; they are a result of the last development and comprise 
prerequisites for the future. In any public system there are conditions of social interaction, there are charac-
teristic forms of language interaction peculiar to it which are called bilingualism or multilingualism. History 
convinces that bilingualism as a special phenomenon of language life among the people of different conti-
nents exists since the mankind invented language as a means of communication. This Means was formed 
during vital needs and need at different stages of development of human society differently and had the fea-
tures, besides the attitude of society towards it was not identical [5].
In our history Russian was the main means of international communication for a long time. The modern 
state language policy is directed to strengthening and expanding the Kazakh language, keeping common cul-
tural functions of Russian and development of people’s languages of our state. Setting up language prefer-
ences among pupils will help to plan the ways of regulating language balance in Kazakhstan. We have all 
opportunities for transition to parity (Latin — equality) of Kazakh, Russian and other languages functioning 
in the country. In modern social and cultural conditions of Kazakhstan the development and distribution of 
bilingualism on the basis of the state Kazakh language is urgent, as relating to the main directions of devel-
opment and interaction of languages. In the present situation the knowledge of the Kazakh language by rep-
resentatives of all other ethnos is an important condition of consolidating the Kazakhstani people. 
Modernization of school education brought about in our country nowadays, first of all, is connected 
with the qualitative update of the contents and ensuring its developing culture character. In this regard the 
special attention is paid to creating conditions for development of the pupil’s creative personal potential and 

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expansion of opportunities of modern advanced education, including language. Within the frame of advanced 
language education such conditions are provided in the process of learning on the bilingual basis. Meanwhile 
in recent years the discussion of the problem of bilingual education is more often conducted, relevance and 
progressiveness of this technology is confirmed. 
Interest of the Kazakhstan school in bilingual education grows by means of native and foreign lan-
guages, there are practiced its various models and separate elements. All this is caused by entry of Kazakh-
stan into Bologna Process, the declarations «About Creation of Uniform European Space of the Higher Edu-
cation», after all «integration of the educational markets is impossible without ensuring access of people to 
global systems and sources of information, without compatibility of educational standards» [5], activization 
of the international activity of higher educational institutions, increase of the academic mobility of students 
and teachers, possibility of participation of the Kazakhstan citizens in the international educational projects.
It is received broad development the direction focusing the teacher on training in cross-cultural com-
munication and which is based on a paradigm: culture — the purpose, language — means [6]. Any language 
is a cultural code which forms human life philosophy, its system of values, style of behavior and mentality. 
Bilingual education, which we consider necessary, is new not only for such multilingual state as Ka-
zakhstan, but also for the whole world. In comparison with many other countries where there is an accultura-
tion of the personality, in Kazakhstan both languages are demanded and fully function, both cultures interact, 
continuous cooperation of different ethnos takes place, therefore, acculturation is out of the question. The 
backbone of bilingual education is reduced to the program in which two languages act as training languages. 
The purpose of such education is formation of the bilingual persons capable freely to carry out communica-
tive and activity operations in two languages in all without exception life situations.
It is necessary to note the need of the consecutive, coordinated performance of all principles revealing 
the essence of some principles of bilingual education. Children at this age are sociable and emotional, their 
feature is inquisitiveness and sharpness of perception, and they are open for any sort of communication. Joint 
activity unites children of different nationalities, causes in them a direct emotional response. 
The principle of co-development of pupils’ communicative and cognitive abilities. Children’s interest in 
game is of great importance at this age. It gives the opportunity to interest pupils in a natural way, using 
game methods of teaching, to develop communicative abilities in speaking, understanding the foreign speech 
aurally. Developing educational and informative (ability to see the purpose and to work in compliance, abil-
ity to control and estimate your actions and actions of other children), speech, social and cultural, language 
competences of preschool children and younger school children, it is necessary to remember that game activ-
ity is harmoniously connected with educational and is the fundamental, forming basis of this activity. 
The principle of multicultural orientation on studying a foreign language. In the environment of bicul-
turalism game activity in the educational process not only solves various problems of the cross-cultural rela-
tions, upbringing, education, but also offers a wide range of real-life and educational situations.
At the same time, competence of literary standards in two languages means understanding, perception 
and preservation of fundamental cultural values of two nations. In this regard the practical purposes of bilin-
gual language education can be defined as:
1. mastering subject knowledge with use of two languages (native and foreign); 
2. formation and improvement of cross-cultural competence; 
3. development of communicative competence in the native and learned foreign languages; 
4. development of ability to receive additional subject (extra language) information from different 
spheres of functioning of a foreign language. 
Realizing these purposes means to create a pupil’s language personality that is the personality capable 
to generate and understand speech statements [7]. 
Normally the bilingual know at least one language fluently. However chances when communication of 
the individual with his native language speakers is limited, and the level of the communicative interaction 
with native speakers dominating in language community is low. In a similar situation the adequate 
knowledge of the native language is lost, and the second language is mastered in limits.
This phenomenon gets the name the half-lingualism. The lexical structure of both languages is limited, 
and the grammatical structure is simplified. Special forms of half-lingualism are formed in conditions, when 
the contacting languages are closely related. 
Problems of languages and cultures interaction, language construction and language policy gain special 
relevance both at the level of the individual, and at the level of society multilingualism of which surely as-
sumes bilingualism and multilingualism. 

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In the conditions of the bi-and multilingualism sometimes rather uncommon is a question of the native 
language and in general a question of ethnic consciousness. Not by accident this problem is widely discussed 
now. 
Khasanov B.H. considers: «For the personality its bilingualism is a means of thought expression, of 
knowledge of reality and of communication in multilingual society: thus its main component (native lan-
guage) is a characteristic component of national, other component (the second language) — a learning tool of 
the persons representing multilingual nationalities and development of cultural values of other people [8]. 
The main difference of bilingual education from the traditional one is that teaching language is not only 
the means for teaching and training, but also its purpose. There is no doubt that mastering the language most 
successfully happens in the case of a significant and actual context. It follows that it is necessary to balance 
continuously between the lesson focused on the academic content and the lesson of a specific language ori-
entation to achieve both purposes in the coursework. As in the phrase «bilingual education» we emphasize 
the noun (education), the bilingual lesson turns into a place where the academic and nonacademic content of 
a subject meet. It means that explaining the essence of difficult issues and scientific (academic) concepts we 
have a right to use more down-to-earth (nonacademic) language taking into consideration the pupils’ insuffi-
cient level of language teaching proficiency [8]. The concept bilingual programs in literature denotes various 
devices by means of which it is possible to help children to get compulsory (academic) education in the se-
cond language (or to continue education in the language which isn't the first or mother tongue). We con-
sciously avoid the definition «mother tongue» as it is very difficult under the conditions of the modern dy-
namic world. 
We can differentiate bilingual programs on the purpose and the audience. In case when the purpose of 
the bilingual program is transition to education only in the second language, these programs are called as 
transitional programs. Even in such tough wording it turned out to be necessary to support and in some ways 
develop the child’s first language proficiency level for maintaining the quality of education. The restriction 
of the importance of the first language slowed down the general development and mastering the program. In 
the modern world such transitional programs are unique in the case when the only common feature of the 
audience is the poor command of the language (state language), and children can have a various first lan-
guage. It is necessary to note that these are mainly children from needy families (and often low-intelligent). 
Unfortunately, nowadays the bilingual and multilingual personality hasn’t become a model yet on 
which the society is focused on. Mainly a bilingual masters one of the languages so poorly that his commu-
nication opportunities in this language are very limited [9]. It is easy to switch from language to language if 
to aspire to forming the ideal bilingual/multilingual personality who will know two languages rather freely 
and depending on circumstances, it would be necessary to bring some innovations within the system of 
school education, having included the bilingual education in it. Though it is an absolutely hard thing de-
manding big expenses and assuming the solution of a set of scientific, methodical, organizational, adminis-
trative, social and economic, psychological issues. But as a result we will have the highly educated bilinguals 
who are equally fluent in two literary languages. All this in total makes a basis of the educational process in 
such multicultural and multilingual community as Kazakhstan which needs the educated, moral, enterprising 
experts [10]. They should be capable independently to make crucial decisions in choice situations, predicting 
their possible consequences; capable to cooperation, differing in mobility, dynamism, constructability, pos-
sessing the developed identity. 
In modern programs an ultimate goal of education and mastering the language as a means of communi-
cation is the pupil’s communication competence. In the Republic of Kazakhstan there is a concept of the lan-
guage identity of a new type knowing several languages (three languages: Kazakh, Russian, English), inte-
grated into the world culture, tolerant and possessing universal values. The foreign language is included in 
the list of compulsory subjects [11]. In accordance with the International European language standard the 
state educational standard on a foreign language was created.
The role of bilingualism in formation of harmoniously developed personality is great, for which it is an 
important means of all-round development and self-expression in multinational society in the concrete histor-
ical period — from the middle of the XX century to our time». Bilingualism (multilingualism) is the phe-
nomenon socially natural and necessary in the multinational state. [12] 
There is an opinion that use of the principles of bilingual education is a direct way of language assimila-
tion of the population. But otherwise we doom those citizens to inevitable language and common cultural 
isolation. Both in that and in the other case it is possible to see signs of internal unity weakening of Kazakh-
stan nation, so it is necessary to look for ways of overcoming these remaining disintegration moods. 

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According to many experts, mastering the native language, i.e. taking all its measures can be possible 
only by learning any foreign language. Nothing can be learned without comparison, and the unity of lan-
guage and thinking doesn't give us the chance to separate thought from ways of its expression. The bilingual 
language education gives us this chance, helping to reveal various means of expression both in the foreign 
and the native language. 
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