Work on the formation of communicative competence of junior schoolchildren at the lessons of the Yakut language: syntactic level

The paper reveals the problems of the formation of communicative competence at the syntactic level in students of primary school age of a Yakut school. The importance of the native language in teaching Russian and foreign languages is emphasised. Speech syntax is considered to be the indicator of the communicative and cognitive potential of primary school children. The results of experiments showed that oral and unprepared written speech in the native language on a given topic do not differ from each other in quality and content. It was revealed that the prepared written speech activates vocabulary of students, while the number of words and common simple sentences in the text increases, but syntactic constructions do not show significant changes in quality. In this regard, the authors emphasise the need to develop and implement a minimum of syntactic structures in the native (Yakut) language for primary school students.