Teaching Vocabulary as the Most Important Component of Speech Activity

The article examines the teaching of vocabulary as the most important component of speech activity in foreign language lessons at the initial stage. The aim of the work is to identify the most effective methods and techniques for the formation of lexical speech skills at the initial stage of learning a foreign language. For this, the following tasks were set how to study and analyze the psychological-pedagogical and scientific-methodological literature on the problem analyze the problems of the formation of lexical speech skills, methods of teaching vocabulary in a foreign language used in primary school to determine the conditions under which the process of teaching vocabulary is successful at the initial stage of learning a foreign language