Yahenich L. Forming Junior Pupils' Strategic Competence in the Process of Teaching Listening Comprehension in English.

The thesis deals with the problem of forming junior pupils' strategic competence in the process of teaching listening comprehension in English. The background of foreign teaching listening in a foreign language has been theoretically determined. At the initial stage of language study at school, listening is the most direct connection to the meaning of a new language. Strategies determined by components of strategic competence are to be used by young learners to achieve successful results in listening comprehension. The psychological and communicative developments of children were analyzed to choose appropriate strategies to form in primary school. Listening strategies include communicative and learning strategies. Key listening strategies are taught in the classroom and used by young learners to do their home tasks. Communicative strategies include selective listening, predicting, personalizing, etc. Learning strategies comprise organizing, planning, monitoring, self-evaluating, etc. Forming strategiccompetence is defined as the fulfillment of the educational autonomy as one of the tendencies in the process of teaching foreign language in primary school. The complex of exercises is aimed at the development of listening and strategic competence in the process of teaching listening comprehension in English. The effectiveness of the suggested methodology was verified and confirmed during the experimental teaching.Methodological recommendations on how to organize and apply forming strategic competence in the process of teaching listening and comprehension in English in the primary school have been developed and successfully implemented in six secondary schools of Ukraine.