PEDAGOGICAL CONDITIONS OF USING A WIMMELBUCH AT ENGLISH LESSONS AT PRIMARY SCHOOL

• Main Author: Iryna Lobachova
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Donbas State Pedagogical University 2017-04-01
• Series: Profesìonalìzm Pedagoga: Teoretičnì j Metodičnì Aspekti
• Subjects: foreign language communicative competence; innovative teaching technology; primary schoolchildren; Wimmelbuch; learning situation; visual teaching aids
• Online Access: http://pptma.dn.ua/files/2017/5-2/24.%20Lobachova%20s.%20246-255.pdf

The article deals with the problem of using a Wimmelbuch as visual teaching aids for forming foreign language communication skills at English lessons at primary school. Nowadays much attention is given to the problem of forming and improving foreign language communication skills of primary schoolchildren in scholarly works and case studies. The aim of the article is to analyze the problem of implementing visual teaching aids, in particular a Wimmelbuch while forming foreign language communication skills at English lessons at primary school. The aim involves the following tasks: to define the factors that influence forming primary schoolchildren’s communicative competence; to find out the pedagogical conditions of the problem of using visual aids (a Wimmelbuch) in teaching a foreign language at primary school. Such methods as analysis, synthesis, and systematization are used to achieve the aim of the article. They help to get to the essence of the outlined problem and pass from a less general idea to more general one logically. Much attention is given to the factors that influence forming primary schoolchildren’s communicative competence. The pedagogical conditions of the problem of using a Wimmelbuch in learning a foreign language at primary school are determined. It is found out that the current labor market conditions require from the organization of the educational process at secondary school to lay the strong foundation for the formation of primary professional skills of an individual. Therefore, teaching English should have both the communicative-oriented character and professionally-directed one that promotes developing consciousness; expanding students’ outlook, their creative development, personal culture and competence; forms recognizing a multicultural world. Nowadays there are the following features of the communicative approach in learning a foreign language: a) a language is examined as a means of communication, preference is given to mastering conceptions and functions; b) a language is studied on the basis of students’ personal activities of. The didactic conditions for the formation of foreign language communicative competence of students (taking into account age features, favorable social conditions; communicative behavior of interlocutors, creating in the learning process typical situations of communication, etc.) are disclosed in the article. It is proved that the visual principle plays a special role in learning a foreign language, it helps to create a situation of objective reality in forms of the second language for the realization of learning foreign language communication. Thus, an objective world is created using visual aids in school conditions of learning in the absence of foreign environment. Using a Wimmelbuch as a means of visual aids in learning a foreign language provides positive motivation of gaining knowledge, promotes personal interest to a foreign language, stimulates speech activity of primary schoolchildren. The forms of a foreign language for students are the reflection of the appropriate fragments of an objective world and contain certain information, exchanged in communication in different situation.