SPEECH SITUATIONS AS A MEANS OF DEVELOPING KEY COMPETENCIES AMONG 7-8 GRADE STUDENTS IN THE PROCESS OF LEARNING FOREIGN LANGUAGES

Abstract

The article substantiates the methodological principles of creating speech situations in the process of competence learning of the German language among 7-8 grade students. It was determined that the main content of German language learning can be considered as a didactically expediently selected and specially organized structure of students’ educational actions aimed at mastering communication in oral and written forms in accordance with communicative intentions that are consistent with the content of the curriculum. The approaches that determine the theoretical foundations of developing tasks for the organization of situational communication of 7-8 grade students, forming the relevant key competencies in them, are characterized. The methods of formation and development of speaking competence of 7th-8th grade secondary school students in German lessons are defined and characterized. The article proposes the principles of selection and outlines the functions of speech situations for the implementation of competence-oriented learning. The main concepts of the conducted research were tested by the author in his own pedagogical activity.