Essays in Russian language lessons

Eremeeva Angelina Pavlovna, Vinnikova Anna Mihailovna

The article deals with the issues of genre practice in Russian language lessons at school. The importance of the formation of communicative competence among schoolchildren is noted. The author considers the primary task of a verbal teacher to teach schoolchildren to create an essay, since this type of essay develops coherent speech, helps to form the communicative skills necessary for the final essay in the 11th grade and for the USE in the Russian language. Therefore, the author consistently reveals the features of preparing students to write an essay in the essay genre, offers criteria for evaluating this type of creative written work. The essence of the methodology is to create a set of methods and techniques to activate the personal experience of students in the process of preparing them for writing an essay in the essay genre. The article notes that the ability to write an essay creates further prerequisites for the intellectual and spiritual development of a student, increases the level of his culture. The application of skills in the field of this type of essay will help future graduates to accurately express thoughts that are necessary for socialization and establishing communications, as well as improve writing skills, increase the level of general literacy, become educated, cultured and successful people in life.

Keywords:communicative competence, communicative skills, communication, speech activity, written creative work, genre of essay, essay-essay.