Teaching polypredicative structurefor elementary school students at the Yakut language classes: the communicatory aspect
The relevancy of including polypredicative sentences in the syllabus for the native language syntax in the 4th grade of the Yakut school is justifying in this article. The child's native language (first language) is the basis of the child's communicative and cognitive development. The native language system absorption occurs on a syntactic basis. By the age of seven, children, as native speakers, use various syntactic constructions in spoken language, including polypredicative sentences. The polypredicative sentences use in speech is a fluency indicator in the native language, as well as communicative, and cognitive development. The quality of native language proficiency must be maintained and developed by the education system. The intellectual and communicative activity of elementary school students is higher than the proposed syntax teaching system. Presently, the syntax course content in elementary school is implemented on a simple sentence base, which does not adequately ensure the communicative competence formation, it misses the didactic potential use of the polypredicative sentences for the students' communicative and cognitive development. In the 3-4 grades, most of the students begin a new communicative development level. On the one hand, this is facilitated by mastering the writing technique and students spontaneously transfer syntactic constructions used in spoken language into written speech, but and on the other hand, the intensive communicative skills formation continues, and develops thinking, and cognitive work activates the enrichment, not just vocabulary but also syntactic speech structure. Meanwhile, polypredicative constructions formed by students in texts don't always correspond to the syntactic norms of written speech. Their native language proficiency allows them to formulate thoughts in the form of polypredicative sentences, but the limited models of simple sentences offered in native language lessons create a barrier in the strategy of choosing sentences for putting thoughts into writing. The article presents a set of skills that form the students' communicative competence at the syntactic level, as well as an interaction matrix and a diagram of their relationships in the reproductive and students' productive activities in the process of teaching polypredicative sentences.