BUILDING JUNIOR SCHOOLERS’ LEXICAL COMPETENCE IN ENGLISH READING THROUGH PICTORIAL VISUALS
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https://doi.org/10.17721/2663-0303.2021.7.04Abstract
Background: Building lexical competence in reading in 2nd- grade students is a complex process due to a number of mental properties of a child at this age (weak long-term memory, involuntary attention, unstable volitional processes, fatigue, etc.). All this requires that a teacher should search for the technologies and teaching aids that could ensure a proper level of knowledge, skills and abilities as well as arouse positive emotions and interest in children, develop their psychophysiological and personal qualities, thereby motivating them to learn a foreign language. Such teaching aids include visuals used at all stages of teaching vocabulary.
Purpose: The aim of the study is to give insight into theoretical and practical aspects of building 2nd graders’ lexical competence in English reading through pictorial aids.
Results and Discussion: The technology of enhancing lexical competence is based on the gradual building of lexical skills through pictorial aids (exposure of students to new words, repetitive vocabulary drills, automation of students’ usage on the levels of words, phrases, sentences, enhancing lexical receptive skills in reading through photos, plot pictures, series of pictures. It is substantiated that the use of pictorial aids promotes better memorization of new words, focus on vocabulary and text, motivates reading and speaking, evokes positive emotions in children.
Key words: lexical competence, reading, primary school, pictorial aids.
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