The Lexico-Ethnography Component ‒ a Very Important Component of Future Primary School Teacher’s Professional Competence

У статті окреслено сутність базових понять дослідження. Лексико-народознавчий компонент професійної мовно-мовленнєвої компетентності визначено як сформованість знань тематичної групи слів, стійких висловів, у яких відображаються особливості матеріальної і духовної культури народу. Наведено окремі вправи з метою формування лексико-народознавчого компонента професійної, зокрема мовно-мовленнєвої компетентності майбутніх учителів початкової школи у процесі навчання мовно-методичних дисциплін у закладі вищої педагогічної освіти. Висвітлено окремі результати пілотного телекомунікаційного проєкту кафедри української мови і літератури СумДПУ імені А.С. Макаренка.The article outlines the essence of basic research concepts. The primary school teacher’s professional competence is characterized as dynamic integrated personality quality, characterized by the level of professional education, experience, individual abilities, desire for continuous self-education and self-improvement, self-development, speech and communication. The main content of linguistic and speech competence is the knowledge of the literary language rules, its phonetic-phonological order, assimilation of the oral and written speech laws, literary pronunciation norms, lexical stock and syntactic structure, which is manifested in their use in speech-thinking activity. The lexico-ethnography component of professional linguistic and speech competence covers the formation of knowledge of the thematic words group, stable expressions, where the peculiarities of people’s material and spiritual culture is reflect. Separate exercises for formation the lexico-ethnography component of the professional, in particular, the future primary school teachers’ linguistic and speech competence in the process of teaching language and methodological disciplines in the higher pedagogical educational institution are presented. The didactic material consists of nationally-marked words in the texts of oral folk art, fiction, recordings made by students during folklore, dialectical practices in Sumy region. Some results of a pilot telecommunication project aimed at the formation of primary school students’ Ukrainian linguistic and speech competence by means of direct online communication, performed by the Department of Ukrainian Language and Literature of Sumy State Pedagogical University named after A.S. Makarenko. It is argued that a more detailed mastery of the lexico-ethnographic component will contribute to the linguistic thinking, linguistic formation and linguistic production of the future primary school teacher, who must be able to characterize the phenomenon of Ukrainian culture, development of its history, place in the system of world-wide culture, to evaluate cultural achievements on the basis of knowledge of their creation historical context, to be able to dialogue cultures, to express and substantiate their own position on issues related to the value of the historical past