Abstract
The issue of formation of speech culture of senior preschoolers is one of the most important tasks of modern education. The paper shows the role of communicative competence as the tool for the socialization of a preschooler personality, mental formation and development of thinking of senior preschoolers. The author says about the comprehensiveness of the notion of “imagery” in modern science, notes that the emotional-expressive tone becomes the unique characteristic of imagery speech. The paper pays particular attention to the senior preschool age as the most sensitive period of formation of imagery speech and understanding of imagery means by the senior preschoolers using the material of metaphorical riddles. The process of development of speech imagery of senior preschool children on the material of metaphorical riddles is the subject of the study. The paper analyzes the data of ascertaining experiment, which was aimed at the study of special aspects of understanding and application of metaphors and other imagery means by senior preschool children. The author gives the results of the experiment showing the nature of difficulties during the interpretation of metaphors by children and self-selection of metaphors for the description of an object. In particular, the author notes the difficulties in understanding the figurative meanings of the words, recognition of metaphor in the text, understanding its figurative meaning and difficulties in creation own metaphorical riddles. These data allow making the conclusion that children under test have the insufficient level of development of speech imagery. At the same time, the individual cases of proper metaphor interpretation allow assuming that the formation of imagery speech of preschool children is possible using metaphorical riddles. The development of linguo-motivational space through the use of modern interactive methods and pedagogical techniques is the precondition for such formation.
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