COMMUNICATIVE ORIENTATION OF TEXTBOOKS AND DICTIONARIES FOR TEACHING A FOREIGN CROATIAN LANGUAGE

Knowledge of foreign languages is an important condition not only for personal, cultural, but also professional contacts of a certain person. In view of this, there is a growing attention to the content of teaching foreign languages, updating its technologies, creating textbooks, manuals, dictionaries for their study. The learning process is a joint activity of the teacher and students aimed at learning the language, and largely depend on the means involved in the organization of learning. Teaching aids are an important, integral part of teaching a foreign language. They contribute to the effective organization of learning; make it easier for students to successfully master it. Textbooks, manuals, educational dictionaries have been an important component of foreign language teaching for many years. Renewal of the content of education, a new concept of teaching brought to the fore the principle of language learning through culture. Intensification of the educational process, search for ways to implement the principle of active communication encourage the creation of textbooks that largely meet the communicative needs of students, stimulate speech activity, while increasing the level of socio-cultural awareness of the country whose language is studied. Bilingual thematic dictionaries in recent years become increasingly popular for foreign language learning. The Ukrainian-Croatian Dictionary contains around ten thousand words and phrases. The dictionary is intended for students with a variety of language courses, but they are also suitable for independent learning vocabulary, Ukrainian and Croatian languages for those who are interested in languages. The primary purpose of the dictionaries is to help rework topics relevant to everyday communication, as well as topics related to general problems of professional communication. Thematic dictionaries can help you conquer the conversation for various situations. Thematic dictionaries are also among the teaching aids that can best be tailored to the requirements of the communicative method. They organically combine the actual communicative and system-language work, namely: the system description of the lexical level of language or its fragments is extrapolated to the learning of different types of speech activity: receptive, productive, receptive-productive. Key words: teaching methods, textbook, thematic dictionary, communication, speech activity.