TECHNOLOGY FOR DEVELOPING FOREIGN LANGUAGE COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE THROUGH SPEECH SITUATIONS FOR STUDENTS IN GRADES 7 –8 OF GENERAL SECONDARY EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

Abstract

The article substantiates the technology of competence-oriented teaching of foreign language communication to students of general secondary education institutions through speech situations, defines its components, stages, and proposes a system of communicative actions to be performed by students in the process of its implementation. It describes the methodological functions of speech situations as important means of forming intercultural foreign language communication competence, analyzes the topics and requirements of current model curricula, and outlines the communicative skills that students should demonstrate based on the results of their education in grades 7–8. The author has prepared the content of thematic communicative tasks for general secondary education institutions as a means of integrated formation of mechanisms of situationally oriented foreign language communication in students in accordance with the areas and topics provided for in the curriculum. The main concepts of the study were tested by the author in his own pedagogical activity.