Organization of Educational Communication for Primary School Students with Different Educational Needs as the Way to Achieve Meta-subject Results while Teaching a Foreign Language Communication

Abstract

The article considers an issue of organization of educational communication for primary school students with different educational needs in a foreign language lesson. Nowadays there is a tendency that children with different educational needs (neurotypical children (developing according to their age norm), children with special educational needs (SEN), non-native Russian speakers, and gifted children) study within one class. Therefore, every teacher is faced with the problem of effective educational interaction of such students. The purpose of the research is to identify, substantiate and experimentally test the productive ways of interaction and conditions for educational communication organization for students with different educational needs and abilities in a foreign language class. The researcher defined the characteristics of educational communication; specified the communication features for each group of learners; empirically identified the productive communication types for learners with different educational needs and conditions (psychological, pedagogical and methodological) for educational communication implementing. Also, the model of educational communication was developed. Testing of the model and productive types in schools, analysis of the sociometric survey, analysis of the subject performance dynamics of learners, and the statistical survey analysis showed that organization of educational communication when teaching interaction in a foreign language leads to achieving subject and meta-subject results. The results of the research may be also useful for effective teaching of engineering students with different educational needs and different levels of a foreign language acquisition.KeywordsEducational communicationDifferent educational needsCollaborative activityProductive types of communicationTeaching a foreign language communication