The article highlights the ways of implementing the competence approach in the process of teaching younger students the English language, it involves clarifying the content and results of learning, selecting effective methods, techniques, and forms of organizing educational interaction, updating the didactic and methodological support of the educational process, introducing new approaches to checking and evaluating the educational achievements of students. It has been determined that in the modern conditions of education reform in Ukraine, the formation of communicative competence of primary school students is gaining relevance, because the younger school age is extremely favorable for mastering communicative skills and abilities, since children of this age period, speech hearing and articulation are easily formed, they love to learn new words and stable expressions, master linguistic constructions, show interest and sensitivity to linguistic phenomena, strive for communication and quickly acquire speech experience. It has been proven that the didactic and methodical principles of the organization of competence-oriented teaching of foreign languages of elementary school students. The age characteristics and potential capabilities of elementary school students are outlined, the types and forms of educational activities are proposed and substantiated by the competence, communicative, person-oriented, and cultural approaches to learning, and the methods, forms, and methods of organizing the process of learning language material and the formation of foreign language communication skills are characterized; the specific tasks of the development of the educational process during the implementation of the Concept of the New Ukrainian School in general secondary education institutions are defined.
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