FORMING PRIMARY SCHOOLCHILDREN’S FOREIGN LANGUAGE COMPETENCE BY MEANS OF THE SUBJECT “ECONOMICS”

• Main Author: Oksana Losieva
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Donbas State Pedagogical University 2017-04-01
• Series: Profesìonalìzm Pedagoga: Teoretičnì j Metodičnì Aspekti
• Subjects: primary school students; integrated course; foreign language competence; English; course “Starts of Economy”
• Online Access: http://pptma.dn.ua/files/2017/5-1/8.%20Loseva%20s.90-103.pdf

The intensity of Ukraine’s promotion to the community of European nations, the adoption of a visa-free regime with the EU, cooperation between the countries in various spheres of life exposes the perennial problem of foreign language education, which is expressed in linguistic isolation, updates mastering by an average Ukrainian at least one foreign language at the level of communication in everyday life and economic area. One of the reasons is the isolation of programme material of modern school in general and of English in particular, from the realities of life, its obsolescence, gaining knowledge for successful mark for homework, etc., rather than their practical application. The situation is complicated with the lack of communication with native speakers beyond existing capabilities of modern information technology. The integration of educational content, its update in scientific literature are studied by E. Barbin, K. Volynets, S. Honcharenko V. Kremen, C. Semychenko et al. The ability of the integrated approach to highlight the drawbacks of the conventional modern primary education, create conditions for increasing the importance of education for pupils are claimed by S. Hapieienkova, K. Hus, V. Ilchenko, I. Kozlovskyi, F. Sharipov, N. Yudina and others. Scientists A. Amend, O. Varetska, V. Pristupa, I. Sasova, B. Shemiakin, A. Shpak have proven capabilities of productive integration of economics with objects invariant and the variable component of the school curriculum. The purpose of the article is to highlight educational opportunities of integrated course “Economics for Beginners” for pupils of the 4th form of secondary schools in forming students’ foreign language competence by the means of “Starts of Economy”. Results of testing integrated course “Economics for Beginners” show certain growth in students’ knowledge level in both Economics and English, their motivation to learn, feeling of success and rising activity at other classes, the material of which concern the studied subjects at integrated specified rate An integrated approach in object-language direction has great advantages comparing with the communicative one, because there is a complete immersion of students into foreign language environment, enriching vocabulary through terminology. The most valuable is the fact that children get a complete picture of the world which is necessary for successful socialization of young learners.