Development of Primary Students’ Dialogic Oral Communication Skills

Abstract: The main goal of the study of Bulgarian language and literature in the initial stage of primary education is the mastery of the key competence related to communication in the Bulgarian language. The subject of research in the article is the communicative competence of students of primary school age and, more specifically, the skills of dialogical oral communication. An analysis of the curricula for Bulgarian language and literature from grades 1 to 4 (general education), which are published on the website of the Ministry of Education and Science, was performed. Scientific publications related to the methodology of teaching Bulgarian language, oral speech, oral communication, dialogue, oral dialogic etiquette communication were studied. The aim is to outline the place of these skills in the complex of competencies mastered by students, to highlight some features in the development of dialogic oral communication skills. On this basis, specific methodological guidelines adequate to the goals of modern language teaching and the communicative needs of modern students are derived. Keywords: communicative competence, dialogical oral communication, primary school age. Rhetoric and Communications Journal, issue 56, July 2023