Ishimgaliyev, Adam2024-02-282024-02-282023Ishimgaliyev, A. (2023). The Phenomenon of Multilingual Education. NUGSE Research in Education, 6(2), Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Educationhttp://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/7601Multilingual education (MLE), a type of education starting with the mother tongue of the learners, and then gradually introducing one or more additional lan-guages as a medium of instruction policy in teaching, has gained considerable attention around the globe as a means of linguistic proficiency, cultural awareness, and academic success in a rapid-changing globalized world. Multilingualism, typically referring to two or more language acquisitions, involves different aspects of language, culture, and education, making it an im-portant topic to discuss and analyze. The aim of this critical review is to explore multilingual education, its historical development, diverse models, impact on stu-dent achievement, social and cultural implications, and most significantly MLE challenges (their description, risks, influence) that teachers and learners might en-counter in its implementation in an educational sys-tem. All of the key features regarding MLE’s merits and negative points will be clearly analyzed with the help of actual existing scientific literature, and a rea-soned conclusion with the recommendations will be summarized and shared. Understanding the potential prospects, complexity, and implications of the subject is unquestionably significant for scholars, authorities, and educational policymakers since they are the ones who take the responsibility of examining and sharing the subject’s condition and perspectives, shape the current and future models of learning programs, and its implementation.enAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United StatesType of access: Open AccessMultilingual EducationArticle