Development of lexical minimum of high school students as a means of enhancement of their foreign-language skills

Abstract

The article highlights the issues of enhancement of high school students` vocabulary in accordance with the requirements of state standards for lexical skills of secondary schools` students. The authors address the main stages of process of acquiring of lexical material by high school students taking into account their age and psychological specifics, including sufficiently developed cognitive skills and metaconscious. The article gives the review of project and gaming learning technologies as effective techniques of development of students` lexical skills, their background and examples of their implementation on foreign language lessons. The authors reason the feasibility of application of project technology on the stages of introduction of new lexical units and reflection, along with the enforcement of play-based methods on all three stages of developing of lexical skills.