Formation of self-control skills in foreign study books for teaching reading: features of didactic positions in the 21st century

The article is devoted to the study of didactic approaches used for creation of self-test blocks in text-books.The system of self-control skills formation is considered on the example of text-books for learning to read. The leading approaches of the text-books authors to the organization of self-control are considered on the basis of content and structure analysis of the ABC-books published in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Russia, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Turkey and Greece in Cyrillic, Latin and Greek alphabets.The article characterizesthese publications' didactic features from the standpoint of implementing the possibility of self-verification correctness of the tasks and exercises performed. German, Turkish and Greek study books are highlighted and analyzed in detail, and offer an original self-test system in illustrative and textual form.The types of tasks aimed to develop the schoolchildren'sthinking are distinguished on the basis of cluster analysis. The article draws attention to the similarities and differences in the implementation of the idea of the self-control skills formation on the example of the ABC-books publicationsfrom different countries.