Foreign Language in Elementary School: Learning Difficulties and Ways to Eliminate Them (Part 1)

Abstract

The article reveals the educational potential of the subject “Foreign Language”, discusses the educational goals of its study by younger schoolchildren. The problems faced by schoolchildren in the process of mastering a foreign (English) language are analyzed, their causes are established: the inability to perceive a foreign text, to carry out textual activity, insufficient knowledge of semantic reading skills. Examples of exercises are given that help prevent and eliminate the difficulties that younger schoolchildren have when learning English.