Influence of motivation on the formation of communicative skills and knowledge of students at the Mari language lessons
The article deals with the formation of communicative skills and knowledge in the lessons of the Mari (state) language in schools with the Russian (native) language. The main goal of teaching the Mari language as a non-native language at schools is to develop the ability to communicate in Mari. The realization of this goal is connected with the formation of a number of communication skills: to understand the utterances in Mari in various situations of communication, to enter into communication in accordance with the peculiarities and rules of communication of the studied language. Means of communication at the lessons of the Mari language are texts and speech situations. The formation of communicative skills and knowledge in Mari is an extremely topical problem, since the degree of the formation of these skills affects not only the effectiveness of teaching children, but also the process of their socialization and the development of the personality as a whole. But this requires a constant diagnosis of motivation to learn the language and the formation of communicative skills and habits. The purposes of the research are the following: to find the motivation to study the Mari language and to reveal the formation of communicative skills and knowledge of students of the main school. Methods of research are the following: theoretical (analysis of psychological and educational literature on the research topic) and empirical (questionnaire to identify the level of motivation to study the language and the formation of communicative skills and knowledge of students). The content of the research is aimed at revealing the students’ opinion on the importance and necessity of studying Mari as one of the state languages in the Republic of Mari El; the ability of students to independently organize their work at the lesson and at home and to identify the difficulties encountered by students in studying the Mari language. The results of the study allow us to draw the following conclusions: interest in learning the language depends on the level of motivation, in this connection it becomes urgent to find ways and forms of joint activity of students and teachers of the Mari language as a non-native to achieve a high level of motivation and educational results.