Keyword: «speech action»

The effectiveness of the process of teaching a dialogical form of communication in a foreign language is facilitated by understanding speech as a specific type of human activity, as well as taking into account the factors of its origins. That is why the focus of the author's attention is one of the key concepts of modern methods of teaching foreign languages - the speech situation. The article identifies the components of the structure of a speech situation that are relevant for shaping educational speech situations aimed at developing students' skills and abilities in dialogic speech.