The Text is the Main Linguistic Unit of the Content of Teaching a Foreign Language in Primary Education

Abstract

This article describes in detail the fact that the main linguistic unit of content in foreign language teaching is the text and the development of oral and written speech skills based on reading skills. In the modern world, in the English class, the teacher uses various teaching tools to achieve maximum efficiency in mastering a foreign language. Today, information technology is very common and is also available in education. A foreign language lesson in a modern school is a systematic and comprehensive study using various media. But, despite this, one of the most effective means of teaching a foreign language today is still the text, or rather, properly organized work with the text. Psychologists and methodologists have long recognized that reading develops and enriches our speech, expands our vocabulary, teaches us to think in images, raises questions worth thinking about, and also teaches us to see a problematic situation from different angles. proved. Some scholars say that the text is only an oral monologue, others consider the text to be only written speech, and a third group of scholars recognize the text as any speech intention. But most people consider the text to be structured, organized speech.