The proposed article analyses storytelling as a method of forming the communicative competence of future educators. Storytelling is seen as a method of improving students’ communicative competence and as a means of digital visualization. However, the concept of communicative competence includes mastering the necessary set of not only speech knowledge but also skills in the communicative aspect of any professional activity, as well as the practical use of communication tools necessary for the formation of a socially active personality oriented in the modern world. We are currently using new techniques that will help future educators to form speech competence (phonetics, vocabulary, grammar) of preschool children through the introduction into the educational process of methods that allow: to speak, write and listen. This method allows to implement the educational process at the Pedagogical Institute of Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University with extensive use of multimedia forms of teaching material on the example of the content module “Theatrical Art as a Component of Preschool Education”, integrated course “Polyart Education of Preschool Children” for students majoring in 013 “Primary Education”, specialization “Preschool Education”. Students learn to solve problems, reveal ideas, use a cloud of words, compose comics, intelligence maps, interactive books, cartoons, videos, collages. The tasks of storytelling are covered: to capture the attention of the reader or viewer; to inspire trust; to create associations; to stimulate the emotional sphere and evoke empathy; to memorize stories. The main elements of storytelling and the main software tools for creating digital visualization of storytelling are identified. The essence of the concept of “storytelling” as a method of formation of communicative competence is substantiated and analysed. The activities of the Center for Innovative Educational Technologies (ICR) in the practical training of future educators are revealed and a list of tools and programmes such as Closr, ZooBurst, Narrable, Storify, Metta, PowToon, Moovly, Wideo and GoAnimate, Chogger and ToonDoo, used in the work with students are presented.
FORMATION OF CREATIVE ACTIVITY OF FACULTY OF PRESCHOOL EDUCATION STUDENTS DURING THE STUDY OF ENGLISH
