The essence and characteristics of communicative-speech development of younger students

The subject matter of the article is communicative-speech development of primary school students. The goal of research is to justify the essence of communicative-speech development and the characterization of the structure of communicative-speech skills. Discusses various views regarding the understanding of speech development, interpretation and classification of communicative-speech skills. The author have drawn conclusions that successful communicative speech development requires the formation of a generalized communicative and linguistic skills, which are understood the ability of the speaker to ensure the correct application of verbal and non-verbal means in the communication process, communication with other speakers in different communicative-speech situations.