Rhetorical Argumentation Education in Elementary School

Abstract

The paper defines the importance of the argumentative culture of a person in the modern world. It reviews the formation of rhetorical competences in elementary school students through educational disputes. The rhetorical skills are defined as the ability to influence an individual or audience with verbal methods during interpersonal or collective communication and are seen as a structural component of communicative competence. Communicative competences are considered the most important, as they include universal learning actions tied to ability to facilitate the dialogue, present personal opinions and rationalize them, while being prepared to resolve conflicts by cooperation and accounting for the interests of both sides. Communicative speech activity the dispute has learning and developmental opportunities in the classroom. The main method chosen for the creation of rhetorical competences in elementary school students is the educational dispute. The conditions pertaining to the most effective formation of rhetorical competence through the educational disputes are defined and validated: learning how to make a reasoning, training how to pick different theses or arguments, creating educational situations with a difficult question, using formulas defined by the