Familiarization of Pupils with Lexical Systems of the Foreign Languages (English, German, Spanish)
The article deals with the problem of teaching several foreign languages to pupils. The author analyzes modern socio-pedagogical, scientific-theoretical and scientific-practical conditions of introducing the second foreign language in the system of school education. The article considers the existing terms to describe the situation of learning several foreign languages and presents the developed methodology for the formation of students’ lexical competence in the conditions of their mastering two or three foreign languages. The essence and structure of lexical competence as one of the key elements of communicative competence are revealed. The first module of the methodology, which aims to familiarize schoolchildren with the lexical system of the languages being studied, is considered in detail. The tasks of the first module, the stages of its implementation and the results of its implementation in the educational process are described.