Didactic Principles in Teaching Additional Foreign Language in Uzbekistan Context
Abstract
Uzbekistan is a multilingual country, therefore the problems of multididactics in higher
education has been arisen for the last period. This paper offers the current ideas in
multilingualism, multilingual assumptions for teaching an additional foreign language and
implications of the changes of instructional input in the context of multididactics. In
particular, the article aims to look into the issues of teaching additional foreign language for
occupational purpose in the Uzbekistan context.
This study emphasizes the specificity of the cognitive process in teaching and learning two
foreign languages for vocational aims and presents the principles of multilingual didactics.
More specifically, the article brings an overview of didactic principles in the context of
positive and negative transfer of the previous language experiences in learning Italian as
additional foreign language at Tashkent-Turin Polytechnic University. The successful
methods and techniques for application the didactic principles into practice of teaching the
Italian language are also described within this article.