Associative field of the concepts of “multilingualism“ and “monolingualism”

Abstract

This article defines the terms “association experiment”, “stimulus words”, “reaction
words”, describes the history of the emergence and field of application of the association
experiment. On the example of the concepts of “multilingualism” and “monolingualism”, the
results of an association experiment conducted in the form of an online survey of the attitude
of the population of Kazakhstan to the process of introducing multilingualism using the Google
Forms program are presented.
The authors note that with the help of this experiment, mentality as a worldview is studied in
the categories and forms of the native language, the use of which in combination with other
sociological methods leads to a high degree of results.
It is important to study the effectiveness of the introduction of multilingualism in the educational
sphere of the Republic of Kazakhstan. This is because it is necessary to differentiate the potential
of multilingualism in the educational space and to pay attention to the mechanisms of the
native language in the introduction of multilingualism. It should be scientifically substantiated
that the main effectiveness of cooperation of education specialists at the international level,
expanding the horizons of partnership and increasing the availability of sources is the
introduction of multilingualism, support.