COMMUNICATIVE METHOD IN FORMING SPEECH SKILLS OF SCHOOLCHILDREN

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

COMMUNICATIVE METHOD IN FORMING SPEECH SKILLS
OF SCHOOLCHILDREN

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 teaching the Mari language as non-native at Russian-language schools. The methodology of teaching the Mari language as native and non-native is different. The main approach in teaching a non-native language at Russian schools is a communicative method aimed at learning the language as a means of communication. Teaching speaking skills based on the communicative methods demands the implementation of the following principles: speech focused learning process, functionality, situation case, novelty, age characteristics. While studying any language, it is important to pay attention to lexical material – words, expressions, speech patterns. Grammar studies contain familiar and new vocabulary. Exercises are of particular importance. The initial stage of learning is marked by the use of conditional speech exercises, which are divided into imitative (learners imitate the teacher’s statements), substitutive (learners insert the studied material to the given frame), transformational (children change the form), reproductive (learners use the acquired material in their own speech). At the advanced stage of studying the language, learners turn to speech exercises, which develop the ability to ask and answer questions, build a monologue according to a sample, make up sentences using grammar structures. Speech exercises help the teacher to involve learners into the oral communication. The implementation of the communicative method supposes assimilation of the teaching process to the communication, where the teacher and the learner hold a discourse as in a real situation. The communicative method develops skills in such types of speech activity as listening, reading, speaking and writing.

Keywords: communicative method, listening, reading, writing, speaking, speech exercises, systematic activity approach, learners.