Formation of foreign language communicative competence of primary school students by means of digital educational content

Abstract

The authors investigate the issues of digital transformation of the education system and the creation of high-quality digital content for teaching a foreign language to primary school students. In the context of the digital transformation of education and the forced transition to distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, the authors of this study scientifically and methodically proved that digital educational content is an effective means of teaching English to schoolchildren in the Republic of Kazakhstan. The main advantage of the educational complex developed by the authors is that it is adapted to both online and offline learning formats. Nevertheless, our analysis indicates the quantitative and qualitative insufficiency of digital educational content, taking into account the age, psychological, as well as spiritual and moral characteristics and cultural values of Kazakhstani schoolchildren. The novelty of the research lies in the fact that the necessity of creating digital educational content in the conditions of digital transformation of education in the Republic of Kazakhstan is justified from a scientific and theoretical position. The aim of the study is to form the digital and foreign language communicative competence of younger schoolchildren, the level of emotional and value development of the child, as well as to identify the effectiveness of the developed interactive tasks in English. The study was conducted by the method of psychological and pedagogical experiment, the empirical material obtained from the results of testing of primary school students, pedagogical observation, as well as direct teaching of English by the researcher was analyzed and generalized.