DEVELOPING CRITICAL THINKING THROUGH SPEAKING SKILLS IN ENGLISH LESSONS

Аннотация

This article is dedicated to the that the modern lesson of a foreign language is characterized by significant intensity due to its communicative and speech orientation, which requires students to pay enormous attention and active speech and mental activity. The main purpose of teaching a foreign language is to form communicative competence, i.e. the ability and willingness to carry out foreign language interpersonal and intercultural communication with native speakers. One of the main criteria for the formation of a person's communicative competence is reflection, when a person is able to assess his position in accordance with the position and interests of a partner, and therefore apply such logical operations as analysis and comparison.  It is necessary that a person also has skills formed establish communication with the interlocutor, analyze his messages, respond adequately to them, skillfully using both verbal and non-verbal means of communication. The process of teaching foreign languages should exclude little conscious activity of students at the level of speech behavior and develop the ability to carry out communicative activities independently, not only and not so much at the reproductive level as at the productive, creative level.