Interaction of general and additional education in foreign language teaching
Teaching foreign languages at early age is one of the priority areas in the educational policy. Additional education in the field of teaching a foreign language in preschool age is becoming increasingly popular, because it provides continuity in learning a foreign language, improving the quality of education. The purpose of teaching a foreign language to preschool children is to stimulate children’s interest in the process of learning in general, and in the world, people, relationships and cultures in particular. The leading activity at this age is playing, so the involvement of music and singing in English classes will contribute to a more effective mastery of students' speech, socio-cultural knowledge, skills and abilities and contribute to the formation of communicative competence, that is, the ability and willingness to use a foreign language in the process of intercultural interaction in typical situations of oral and written communication