LEARNING IN REPRESENTATION OF STORY TEXTS AS A MEANS OF DEVELOPING FOREIGN LANGUAGE COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE

Abstract

The article discusses the role of story texts used on the aspect of “home reading” for teaching the monologue speech of international students and for the development of foreign language communicative competence (ICC). The purpose of the article is to reveal the advantages of learning to read and retell authentic story texts at an early stage of learning in the formation of speech monologue skills and the development of ICC. This study emphasizes the special importance of the authenticity of texts and proposes didactic solutions for their use in home reading classes for bachelor students of the first year of study of the second semester of a non-linguistic university studying in the areas of “International Relations” and “Foreign Regional Studies”. The authors use the following research methods: review of the work of Russian and foreign methodologists, identification of the level of formation of speech monologue skills after the first semester of training, data processing method. The authors analyze the feasibility and potential of using authentic literary stories in teaching foreign languages when teaching novice students to retell. The paper offers examples of assignments for some stories and substantiates their relevance for the training of future specialists.