LINGUISTIC ASPECT OF TEACHING THE ENGLISH VERB IN THE CONTEXT OF COMPETENCE-ORIENTED EDUCATION

Abstract

The strategic direction of secondary education is a reorientation to forming students’ key competencies, which are the basis of harmonious personality development. The problem of teaching English attracts the special attention of scientists because the mentioned language is an effective means of international communication in today’s multilingual world. Therefore, this paper states the difficulty of implementing the modern competence paradigm in teaching the English language in general and during the study of verbs, as it’s one of the most challenging categories in learning and teaching. We analyzed some approaches to interpreting the concept of “verb” in linguistic literature and came to the conclusion that in addition to assigning a verb to parts of speech, researchers consider its following aspects: it acts as a predicate in a sentence, has a general grammatical meaning, identifies time frames of communication. Consequently, taking into consideration the proposed definition of this category by researchers (D. Hacker, G. Mulderig, A Nesvit, A. Raimes, О. Selivanova, C. Weaver) and the current concept of education in Ukraine, we distinguish such necessary aspects that we should hold in mind for defining the English verb: (1) accessibility, (2) reflects the essential features of the verb (3) characterizes the role and function performed by the verb in the sentence, (4) corresponds to the competence paradigm of education. Hence, we suggest the following definition of the English verb in general secondary educational institutions: a verb is a part of speech that describes an action or a condition, usually functions as a predicate in a sentence, and indicates a time frame within which an action or condition occurs. Among the promising areas for further study, we distinguish the justification of the lingua-didactic aspect of teaching the English verb at secondary schools, taking into account the competence-oriented concept of education.