TRAINING PROSPECTIVE TEACHERS TO APPLY DIDACTIC RHYME TEXTS IN TEACHING GERMAN AT NEW UKRAINIAN PRIMARY SCHOOL

The article considers the problems of professional prospective teachers’ training to use rhyming texts in teaching German at new Ukrainian primary schools. The results of the students’ questionnaire on the relevance of this training are given, its goals and objectives are determined within the elective course “Communicative and game technologies of early foreign language learning” for the third-year undergraduate students majoring in “Secondary Education”. The main professional competencies required for prospective teachers to use rhyming texts in early learning, in particular developing professionally oriented methodological and communicative skills: to select, adapt and methodically competently apply rhyming texts in accordance with the purpose of training; to intensify the educational activities of primary school students, to provide motivational, semantic and procedural basis for foreign language communication of students at the German language lessons and extracurricular activities through the use of didactic rhyming texts; to organize effective German-language interaction of pupils, to model and monitor pupils’ communicative game activity in German in the process of work on a didactic rhyming text. The experience of conducting lectures and practical classes of the elective course is described, the peculiarities of developing prospective teachers’ professional competence in applying didactic rhyming texts at two stages of German language primary school pupils’ teaching are demonstrated. Examples of professionally-oriented tasks and role-playing games for the developing prospective teachers’ methodological and communicative competencies in applying didactic rhyming texts in the early German language teaching are given.