Organizational and pedagogical conditions for the development of bilingualism in preschool children

The article is devoted to the problem of speech development in bilingual children. Preschool age is a favorable period for the development of speech. The main attention in the article is paid to teaching Russian and Mordovian languages (Erzya/Moksha) to bilingual children, since their speech development has a certain specificity that affects the proficiency of both languages (this specificity determines the peculiarities of speech development and teaching methods). On the basis of a theoretical analysis of the problem and their own experience, the authors determine the pedagogical conditions for the development of the speech of bilingual children in the process of forming elementary mathematical concepts. Research methods: the research is based on the analysis, generalization and systematization of modern achievements of pedagogical theory and practice in the development of the speech of bilingual children.