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Article name Role-Playing Game in Developing Foreign Language Skills in Preschool Children
Authors Shovgenya M.M. Senior Lecturer, shovgenya1999@gmail.com
Bibliographic description Shovgenya M. M. Role-Playing Game in Developing Foreign Language Skills in Preschool Children // Scholarly Notes of Transbaikal State University. 2024. Vol. 19, no. 2. Р. 118–127. DOI: 10.21209/2658-7114-2024-19-2-118-127.
Section THEORY AND METHODS OF PRESCHOOL AND SCHOOL EDUCATION
UDK 37.02
DOI 10.21209/2658-7114-2024-19-2-118-127
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Annotation The formation of foreign language skills in preschool children with the help of story-role play is of high relevance and importance due to the fact that knowledge of foreign languages becomes an important skill that helps to successfully adapt in society and in the labor market. The role-playing game allows children to get involved in communication in a foreign language, to apply the acquired skills in practice and to learn new vocabulary and grammar. The novelty of the research is determined by characterizing the functions of the story-role play in early foreign language teaching, describing the role of the story-role play in the process of formation of foreign language speech skills in preschool children, creating with its help an artificial language environment in the classroom. The specifics of using the speech and communicative approach in teaching foreign languages to preschool children are described. The diagnostic table of formation of foreign language communicative competence of preschool children in the story-role play is developed. The author considers the factors that determine the choice of methods and approaches to early foreign language teaching. The author describes the peculiarities of the development of the emotional-volitional sphere, the sphere of self-consciousness, cognitive and speech development. Conversation in a foreign language is one of the main exercises in learning. The author has analyzed the functions of the story-role play in early learning a foreign language, types of motivation, attributes of creating an artificial language environment. The use of story-role-play in the creation of artificial language environment is characterized. The process of realizing the components of foreign language communicative competence is described. In the process of research such research methods as generalization of research results in the field of early foreign language teaching methodology and finding general regularities by processing and interpreting these results, analysis of components of foreign language communicative competence are used. The prospect of the research the author designates in studying the development of foreign language speech skills of preschool children in situations of communication in an artificial language environment in the classroom in the process of using a role-playing game.
Key words story-role-play, foreign language communicative competence, language environment, artificial language environment, speech approach, motivation
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