Modern language teaching technologies for the development of school students’ communicative competence

Abstract

The article analyzes the problem of the development of school students’ communicative competence in the process of learning the language. The authors define the concepts “person-centered technology”, “interactive technology”, “technology of critical thinking development”. Language teaching technology as a system linguo-didactic conceptual educational management envisages motivation, goal determination, designing of prospective teaching and learning activities, active subject-to-subject interaction between a teacher and a learner aimed at achieving a predetermined result, guarantee of a final result, subject factor and reflection. The authors conducted a pedagogical experiment, which verified the efficiency of the technologies designed (person-centered, interactive, technology of critical thinking development) and the linguo-didactic toolset developed (active forms, methods, techniques) for mother tongue teaching. In the process of experimental verification of the efficiency of the technologies designed, significant positive changes in the levels of formedeness of school students’ communicative competence took place.