Formation of foreign language grammatical competence among high school students

Abstract

We substantiate the need for the foreign language grammatical competence formation among high school students. We consider personal, meta-subject, subject results of mastering the main educational program “Foreign Language”, reflected in the Federal State Educational Standard of Secondary General Education, the European system of levels of foreign language proficiency. Based on the fact that the result of mastering the basic course of a foreign language is the achievement of a threshold level of proficiency in a foreign language, the main criteria (the speed of individual operations, the number of grammatical constructions used, variability, accuracy) and the levels of formation of foreign language grammatical competence among high school students were determined. We focus on a complex of grammar exercises and tasks aimed at the reproduction, combined with the substitution; the expansion of a speech sample, the transformation and the combination. The topic “Conditional sentences” was chosen for a more accurate description of the complex of exercises and tasks. It is one of the most difficult grammatical topics proposed for study at school. We prove that methodically competently organized work on the foreign language grammatical competence formation among high school students makes the process of teaching foreign language effective and creative.