DEVELOPMENT OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS’ COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE IN THE UKRAINIAN LANGUAGE BY THE TRAINING DISCUSSION METHOD USING A TEACHING SAMPLE OF SITUATIONAL AND COMMUNICATIVE TASKS

Abstract

The article proposes the development of communicative competence in the Ukrainian language of secondary school students as a holistic didactic process. Its components are determined by the development of coherent speech, communicative tasks aimed at its training and testing, and the method of educational discussion, due to which of these tasks should be used. Attention is focused on the method of training discussion aimed at meeting the vital needs of students in communication. The communicative principle underlies the analysis of various classifications of tasks, the use of training tasks in Ukrainian language learning, organizing training discussion to form students’ communicative skills in the process of Ukrainian language teaching. The ways of developing cohesion and coherence of spoken Ukrainian are reviewed in detail. The author explores the features of the teaching-learning process of development of communicative competence at the Ukrainian language classes and creates a teaching sample of situational and communicative tasks for the formation of students’ speech coherence. The author suggests performing them by engaging students in training discussion. The types of these tasks, aimed at the development of spoken coherence are defined in article. The author describes the structure of the situational and communicative tasks as the resource for training discussion, and identifies their potential for the development of speech cohesion. Conclusions state to their impact on the communicative competence dynamics of students.