PECULIARITIES OF PHONETIC FORMATION ASPECT OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AS A COMMUNICATIVE-LINGUISTIC SUBCOMPETENCY OF STUDENTS-PHILOLOGISTS AT LANGUAGE TRAINING HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Abstract

The article is devoted to the substantiation of theoretical aspects of teaching English phonetic competence. Its definitions and its structural components are given. The ways and methods of teaching phonetic competence that favour the development of pronunciation skills as part of the overall process of speech skills and abilities development in the process of learning a foreign language are identified. It has been proven that phonetic skills can be considered to be formed when phonemic hearing developed and connections established between the auditory and acoustic and phonemic aspects of speech, as a result of which the language acquires a sufficient degree of accuracy. A number of prerequisites for successful learning of phonetic material are examined: formation of auditory processing, rhythm and intonational skills, i.e. ability to listen and hear, development of phonemic hearing, pronunciation skills, i.e. automaticity of articulation base of a foreign language, ways of intonation, development of internal speech as a psychophysiological basis for external speech. The research is focused on the stages and content of pronunciation learning, which includes mastering the necessary knowledge of pronunciation of individual sounds and phrases, the formation of automaticity of sounds and sound combination perception, i.e. the shaping of their auditory images, assimilating the mechanisms of sounds and sound combination articulation – the need to get acquainted with intonation, phrasal stress and rhythm of a foreign language. The study aims the importance of adjusting the phonetic skills that the students have already acquired in accordance with the phonetic system of the language under study and the need to supplement it with those elements of pronunciation that are absent in the native language or a second one. The article presents examples of exercises for practice and correct phonetic design of different statement types. Fragments of formation of receptive rhythmic and intonation skills at training ascending and descending intonation to improve professionally oriented phonetic competency are illustrated.