The pedagogical conditions for the formation of preschoolers’ English-speaking communicative and speech competence.

Abstract

The article explains the conception of communicative and speech competence of senior preschoolers, it analyzes the distinctive features of its formation in the senior preschool age. It is emphasized that this age is sensitive for teaching a foreign language from the psychological, physiological as well as pedagogical and linguistic points of view. The authors confirm that the successful formation of preschoolers’ English-speaking communicative and speech competence is possible only if proper pedagogical conditions are created and observed; the latter are also examined and analyzed in the article. It is accentuated that the process of formation of children’s English-speaking communicative and speech competence won’t be of high-quality in case only one of the pedagogical conditions is observed. It is underlined that only the complex of those aspects permits to achieve the desired result. The authors indicate that it is also necessary to take into consideration the changes of the modern reality and the achievements of the scientific progress, which greatly influence the unconscious of modern preschoolers. It requires establishing new pedagogical conditions of high-quality for the formation of children’s English-speaking communicative and speech competence.

Key words:

English-speaking communicative and speech competence, senior preschool age, pedagogical conditions.