FORMATION OF LEXICAL COMPETENCE IN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ON THE BASIS OF PERIODICALS

Abstract

The article highlights the tasks, structure and the results of the pedagogical experiment, organized to examine the effectiveness of the designed methodology of developing lexical competence in high school students on the basis of periodicals. The main national and foreign scientists’ publications on the given theme have been analyzed.
Articles from German magazines «Deutsch perfekt» та «Vitamin de» and also lexical units which represent modern vocabulary of the language were selected in order to solve the given tasks. The system of exercises for developing lexical competence in high school students on the basis of periodicals was designed and experimentally checked. The system of exercises correlates with the stages of lexical competence forming. The advantages of authentic periodicals during foreign language learning were described. The tasks and stages of the pedagogical experiment conducting (ascertaining, forming, control) were determined. Students’ level of lexical competence (autonomous, advanced, boundary, medium, introductory) was determined with the help of criteria of assessing levels of lexical skills forming. Implemented analysis and comparative characteristics of pre-test and post-test have proved the effectiveness of the proposed methodology. It was defined that introduction of the authentic periodicals in an educational process was quite an effective way of forming lexical competence in high school students because there was a positive dynamic of increasing the level of forming of lexical competence of high school students.