SKILL OF WORKING WITH LEXICOGRAPHICAL SOURCES AS AN ESSENTIAL COMPONENT OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGE COMPETENCE OF A SCHOOLCHILD

Abstract

The article examines the development of lexicographic skills in schoolchildren at all levels of school education: primary education, basic general education and secondary general education. The need to develop this skill stems from the requirements for developing foreign language competence. However, experience of working with schoolchildren and first-year linguistics students reveals a lack of knowledge about dictionary types, dictionary structure, and the linguistic information found in dictionary entries. The authors examine linguistic competence, the objectives of theoretical and practical lexicography, present a dictionary classification, and a set of exercises to develop skills in working with different types of lexicographic sources at all stages of English language instruction in schools. The proposed methodological solutions include introducing students to various types of dictionaries, including online dictionaries, and using them in practice to solve linguistic problems in preparation for final assessments.