DEVELOPING ORAL SPEECH ESSAY-REASONING SKILLS OF FUTURE FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHERS

• Лариса Гронь

  Рівненський державний гуманітарний університет

• Лариса Середюк

  Rivne State University of the Humanities

The article deals with the problem of developing oral speech skills in the form of an argumentative essay of future foreign language teachers. The argumentative essay (essay-reasoning) is one of the most difficult communicative types of speech which requires a self-written plan for the topic, the ability to give the own arguments and assessments of events.

It is noted that in the competence approach to learning, oral coherent logical speech is one of the important components of special (language) professionally-oriented training of future foreign language teachers.

In the article the essay-reasoning is considered as a complex speech ability to motivate the interlocutor to certain actions and convince him of something; provide evidence "for" or "against" a certain action / facts; to speak and think independently, creatively, critically and reflect on given topics; as a means of activating students oral foreign language communicative activity.

The concept of "monologue- argumentative essay", its main compositional (introduction, main part and conclusion) and linguistic characteristics, stages of organizing the process of developing oral speech skills in the form of argumentative essay have been analyzed.

The introduction is recommended to begin with a general presentation of the topic of the essay, with a sentence expressing its contradictory nature. The main part of the argumentative essay is the actual description of the arguments "for" and "against" or a logical statement of the own opinion. The conclusion in the argumentative essay summarizes and reflects the content of the topic.

Operation algorithm and a set of exercises for teaching oral essay-reasoning which will help to intensify the process of developing oral argumentative statement skills of future foreign language teachers have been suggested.

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