MOTIVATION AS A FACTOR FOR DEVELOPMENT OF COMMUNICATIVE SKILLS AND ABILITIES IN THE USE OF THE MARI LANGUAGE

Oksana N. Vasenina; Valentina V. Konstantinova; Elena V. Alekseeva; Natalia G. Arzamastseva; Lyudmila V. Kurochkina; Irina V. Trubyanova

MOTIVATION AS A FACTOR FOR DEVELOPMENT OF COMMUNICATIVE SKILLS AND ABILITIES IN THE USE OF THE MARI LANGUAGE

Oksana N. Vasenina¹, Valentina V. Konstantinova²*, Elena V. Alekseeva³, Natalia G. Arzamastseva⁴, Lyudmila V. Kurochkina⁵, Irina V. Trubyanova⁶
¹Postgraduate student, Mari State University, Russia, vasenina73@mail.ru
²Assoc.Prof, Mari State University, Russia, mar.pedagog@gmail.com
³Assoc.Prof, Mari State University, Russia, elena_vitaliev@mail.ru
⁴Assoc.Prof, Mari State University, Russia, Natta69@mail.ru
⁵Assoc.Prof, Mari State University, Russia, curochkinaludmila@yandex.ru
⁶Assoc.Prof, Mari State University, Russia, opleva@mail.ru
*Corresponding author

Abstract

The article deals with the formation of communicative skills and abilities at the Mari language lessons at schools where instructions are provided in Russian. The main goal of teaching Mari as a non-native language is the development of the learners’ skills to communicate in this language. The implementation of this goal needs formation of a number of communicative skills: to understand an utterance in the Mari language in various communicative situations, to join a conversation according to the peculiarities and rules of communication in the given language. In teaching Mari as a non-native language, a text is the main means that supposes the presence of an actual problem for the learners of a particular age. The formation of communicative skills has an impact on the effectiveness of teaching schoolchildren, their socialization and individual development, which depends on motivation. In this regard, the purpose of the research is to analyze the motivation for studying the Mari language and to identify the formation of communicative skills and abilities of schoolchildren.

The research was aimed to reveal the learners’ opinion about the importance of studying the Mari language as one of the state languages of the Republic of Mari El; schoolchildren’s ability to organize independently their work in class and at home; identification of learners’ difficulties while studying the Mari language. The results of the study indicate that interest in learning the language depends on the level of motivation, which demands joined activity of learners and teachers of the Mari language.

Keywords: motivation, communication, communicative ability, skill, the Mari language, non-native, schoolchildren.