Group values in high school students’ communicative competence enhancement

Abstract

The article helps to articulate the importance of communicative competence and literacy in group values in human development, including high school students. The article consideres the concept of “communicative competence” in modern scientific psychological and pedagogical studies. The analysis to the forms of teamwork and the way school teenagers’ acquire communicative competence characterizes the content of the topic from a practical significance. The dynamics of the high school students’ group values enhancement during the implementation of an effective communication program is considered as a subject of research. The study has been implemented through specific stages: organizational, empirical, mathematical and statistical processing and analysis of research results. Firstly, Snyder’s method of self-control evaluation diagnostics applied to study the students’ behavioral component. Secondly, Michelson's «communicative skills test» (translated by Gilbukh) demonstrated the students’ cognitive adaptation to group values. Lastly, it has been aimed to evaluate general communicative resistance through the method of diagnosing (by Boyko).

The gained results proved that a group work in the process of the high school students’ communicative competence enhancement can help to build communicative skills, develop speech, conduct negotiations with, create cooperation and joint actions, and shape professional competences of individuals.