Moving towards sustainable multilingualism: key developments and challenges

Abstract

The article discusses the issues of introducing a multilingual component into the process of foreign language teaching in Russian Non-Linguistic University. The author combines the concept of multilingualism with the unique position of English and tries to harmonize their co-existence in the trilingual experimental workbook «Multilingual Guide to the English Speaking World», which changes the traditional approach to the study of Foreign Languages by implementing simultaneous multilingual immersion into English, German and French. Moreover, further development of students’ multilingual world-image is realized by bringing together the cognitive, linguo-cultural and socially-oriented approaches in the language classroom through a number of innovative pedagogical technologies and educational methods.