FEATURES OF DEVELOPMENT OF READING SKILLS IN JUNIOR SCHOOLCHILDREN USING THE METHOD OF "COLOR READING"

Abstract

The article deals with the basic methods of teaching reading in a foreign language to elementary schoolchildren in domestic and foreign theory and practice. The role of early school foreign language reading as a kind of speech activity aimed at the perception and understanding of written text is defined. Reading technique is interpreted as forming automatic skills of quick perception and processing linguistic information (letters, letter combinations, words, punctuation, grammar structures of sentences), followed by correlation with semantic information. The article analyses the new and unique method of teaching students reading technique – the “colour reading”.To determine the rational order of teaching English reading techniques it is necessary to consider difficulties that arise while reading. There are three groups of them. The first group includes difficulties associated with differences between sound and spelling systems of the English language (intralingua interference). The second group includes problems related to stress in different types of words while reading. The third group includes difficulties that are based on differences between the rules of stress and word order in the sentence between native and foreign languages (interlingua interference). But all of the methods have its advantages and disadvantages, that’s why it’s really necessary to find and choose the best one for schoolchildren.