Traditional Methods and Innovative Technologies in Foreign Studies of the Influence of Bilingualism on Cognitive and Personal Development

Abstract

The article constitutes an overview of the methods used in foreign issues to study the impact of bilingualism on the cognitive and personal development of the individual, including innovative technologies. The results and limitations of the methods used are considered. Their wide variety and originality are noted and at the same time inconsistency, heterogeneity and ambiguity of the results obtained on their basis are demonstrated. The urgency of the development of a complex methodological paradigm requires to take into account the socio-cultural context, in which the relationship of bilingualism with the cognitive and personal development of the individual is studied. It is concluded that the use of the developed methods and technologies from the standpoint of cultural-historical approach, overcoming the postulate of immediacy and the consideration of the individual as a subject of activity will contribute to the explanation of conflicting results obtained on the basis of the same methods in different socio-cultural contexts and in different situations of ethnolinguistic interaction, which will improve the reliability and representativeness of research.