The Assessment of social capacities of communicative competence of primary school-age children

The present position paper aims at identifying the social capacities needs in developing primary school children’s communicative competence. The results of this research on the level of social capacities of communicative competence were presented. Turning from survey results, it has been determined that girls possess a significantly higher average value of the social capacities comparing to boys of the same age. Students attending schools in major cities of Lithuania feature the highest average values of social abilities, while the third grade students going to rural schools feature the lowest values. Statistical analysis of the data of quantitative research is conducted by using SPSS version 17.0. To characterize variables, descriptive statistics and multidimensional statistical methods were employed