Digital Technologies in the Development of Russian Speaking Skills and Social and Cultural Competences in Bilingual Children in Russia and Abroad

The research uses the methods of triadic scaffold protocol, case study, survey, interviewing, and observation. The researchers created and tested the first ever model for the development of Russian speaking skills and social and cultural competences in children aged 3 to 8 living in the multilingual regions of Russia and abroad using digital educational tools, as well as the general principles for the integration of digital tools into preschool speech development programs. 
Rapid digitization of education and society in general make this work extremely important. Research findings can be recommended for consideration by methodologists, teachers, and parents interested in the development of competencies related to understanding early bilingual development mechanisms, the peculiarities of the generation of digital natives, the criteria for assessing digital resources for preschool and elementary school children’s speech development, scenarios of digital resource integration into family and formal (mass) education, as well as pedagogical strategies for taking advantage of multimodality, interactivity, and gamification offered by digital teaching tools.