Trilingual education development in universities of Kazakhstan

This paper is devoted to the discussion of the development of trilingual education in Kazakhstan and the impact of this language policy on educational process. The state project Trinity of Languages gives a brilliant chance for young generation of Kazakhstan to be competitive in this challenging community. This paper shows the importance not only of Kazakh and Russian, but also a vital necessity of learning and teaching English in the Republic of Kazakhstan. Focus group discussions with students are analyzed to measure the participants desire to use three languages. The results of questionnaire provides considerable empirical evidence to support the authors arguments on the necessity of introduction of a trilingual education in higher educational system. Nowadays, teaching of three languages is being introduced in Kazakhstan. The study is based on consideration of trilingual educational model from expressive, unifying and integrative functions of languages.