Olga N. Bakymenko

The article discusses the problem of teaching English speech etiquette to 5th grade students, in particular, greeting and farewell formulas, in accordance with the requirements of the Federal State Standard of Basic General Education. The relevance of this study is determined by an attempt to organize targeted practical training of schoolchildren in the units of English speech etiquette and their use in speech. The aim of the study is to develop and test a set of exercises in English lessons in the 5th grade that help students learn and remember speech formulas that should be used during greetings and goodbyes in various communicative situations with native speakers of the British speech culture. The leading methods in the study are the analysis of theoretical sources on the topic, pedagogical modeling and a three-stage pedagogical experiment. The research is based on the works of Russian and foreign scientists who emphasize the national-specific nature of speech etiquette and its role in intercultural communication. It is concluded that it is necessary to integrate the cultural component into the process of teaching foreign languages. The study analyzes methodological techniques aimed at memorizing etiquette formulas, such as role-playing games and semiotic editing, implemented in the forms of collective, group and individual exercises. The results of experimental work conducted on the basis of a secondary school with the participation of 5th grade students have shown that the use of a set of exercises based on modeling real communicative situations in the process of teaching English contributes to improving students' knowledge and skills in terms of English-language etiquette formulas of greeting and farewell. In the experimental class, an increase in the average score and a reduction in the number of unsatisfactory grades were statistically recorded, i.e., the effectiveness of the proposed complex is proved. The theoretical significance of the study is due to the fact that it raises a number of methodological problems related to teaching English-language speech etiquette formulas to middle school students; extensive scientific and methodological material has been collected, systematized and analyzed. The practical significance of this research lies in the potential for using its findings in teaching English at the secondary school level.

The proposed article is devoted to the formation of grammatical skills in students of secondary schools when teaching English. At the same time, information technologies are considered as the key means of developing this skill. The relevance of the study is connected, on the one hand, with the general course towards the digitalization of school education, which is indicated in a number of program documents of the Ministry of Education, and on the other hand, with the objective productivity of information technologies, noted by a number of practicing teachers. In the methodology of teaching foreign languages, the skill acts as the top of the didactic pyramid of educational tasks. The grammatical skill acts as one of the most difficult to form. This work aims to develop and determine the effectiveness of a set of exercises using information technology to form grammatical skills when teaching a foreign language in a secondary school. The main method in the proposed study is the method of pedagogical experiment, which includes diagnostic, forming and control stages. In addition, the methods of testing, quantitative and qualitative analysis of its results are used. The study systematizes and analyses the works of domestic and foreign scientists, reflecting a wide range of ideas about the methodology of teaching foreign language grammar, the essence of information technologies, the specific features of their use in the educational process, which constitutes the theoretical significance of the work. The uniqueness of the study lies in the definition of the pedagogical problem and the proposed method of its solution. The analysis of the textbook of one of the educational-methodical complexes on English language from the point of view of work on grammatical material based on information technologies is made, the formation of grammatical skill among students of seventh grades of the basic school is diagnosed, the original set of exercises involving information technologies is developed and the effectiveness of its application in a particular group of schoolchildren is statistically substantiated. The practical significance of the work is connected with the possibility of using the developments proposed in it in the practice of teaching English in various educational institutions.