The article characterizes the essence of the concepts of “competence”, “speech competence”, “communicative and speech competence”. Separation of the essence of these concepts gave grounds to consider the terminological phrase “formation of communicative and speech competence of preschool age children” as a complex purposeful process of forming an individual integrative quality of the child’s personality, which is determined by the ability to use language correctly and unmistakably in everyday life, and takes place as a result of mastering language, extra lingual and intonation means of speech expression. The potential possibilities of using cartoons in forming preschool age children’s communicative and speech competence are analyzed. It is established that a cartoon is close to a child, arouses his interest, allows to qualitatively change the nature of social-communicative interaction. The criteria for selecting cartoons from the point of view of their suitability for use as a means of forming communicative and speech competence of preschool age children are determined, namely: emotional and speech saturation of the plot of the cartoon; correspondence of the cartoon texts structure to the possibilities of children’s perception and understanding, their correlation with children’s experience and past events; dynamism of a cartoon, sharpness and expressive development of the plot, exciting events for the child; brightness, originality, and individuality of the characters’ images – they are remembered; connection of the film with the real life situation of the child, his relationship with the environment; awakening the desire to imitate a positive hero, in particular his nobility and success. The stages of work on cartoons in the context of forming communicative and speech competence of preschool age children are identified: propaedeutic, viewing, reflexive.
APPROACHES TO DETERMINING THE SOCIAL AND COMMUNICATIVE DEVELOPMENT LEVELS OF SENIOR PRESCHOOL AGE CHILDREN