USE OF LINGUISTIC GAMES IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE LESSONS IN PRIMARY SCHOOL

Abstract

In modern primary schools, there is a problem of forming and improving the communicative skills of students, as well as maintaining students' interest in learning, and in learning a foreign language in particular. This article is devoted to one of the aspects of the methodology of teaching a foreign language in primary school - the use of linguistic games as an effective means of improving the communicative competence of students. The purpose of the article is to consider the possibilities of using game technologies in English lessons in primary school. The relevance of the topic of the article is due to the need to find such methods and techniques in organizing English lessons that would best contribute to the assimilation of educational material by younger schoolchildren, develop speech skills and abilities, and form a creative communicative personality.younger schoolchildren, we found that perhaps the best for students to perceive are game learning technologies. Through games, children express themselves, learn about the world, build models of interpersonal relationships and contacts with the world around them. Games in an easy, relaxed form help students overcome the difficulties they encounter when learning a foreign language. The article analyzes and summarizes the concept of «linguistic game» as a type of didactic game. We also considered the classification of this teaching method, justified the need to use language games in the educational process, described the functions and forms of linguistic educational games. We also provide an overview of some linguistic games that we have successfully used in the process of teaching English and were convinced of their effectiveness both for improving the speech of schoolchildren and for creating a favorable friendly atmosphere in the student community.