Russian Textbook as a Means of Speaking Skills Formation

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to study the formation of speaking skills among graduates of the main secondary school based on the results of the final interview conducted in the 2017/2018 school year, as well as to describe the system of communication-oriented tasks, which should be included in a modern Russian textbook.
The paper uses the method of linguistic observation of students’ speaking practice.
Observations on the students’ speech in the process of constructing a monologic utterance revealed a number of problems in the formation of speaking skills: 1) ignorance or failure to follow the typical compositional structure of a text of a certain functional type; 2) ignorance of speech patterns characteristic for description, narration and argumentation; 3) failure to follow orthoepic, grammatical and speech language norms.
The solution of these problems requires that modern textbooks and coursebooks include not only theoretical material on text studies, but also a well-thought-out system of communication-oriented tasks that contribute to the development of students’ oral speech through the activation of the productive types of speech activity.