Speech creative skills activities development (on the example of students of language departments in pedagogical universities)

The article discusses the problem of speech creative skills development in the process of teaching foreign languages (on the example of the students of pedagogical departments in pedagogical universities). Thus, it analyzes the creative activity and the process of creative skills activity development. These skills include receptive and productive skills of reticular activity. The authors consider these skills as an indispensable condition to the development of the secondary language personality of students. Moreover they find it is important to consider creative expression as the key factor to students’ foreign language activity development. The article shows the characteristics of a foreign creative expression, which are taken as a basis for the criteria for assessing students' spoken activity in foreign languages. The principles of teaching foreign-language recitative activity are analyzed. The article presents a complex of special exercises which the teacher can use while teaching a foreign language activity. It includes analytical, reproductive and productive and productive exercises. Analytical exercises are aimed at developing skills in text analysis. Reproductive-productive exercises include exercises which help to specify, to transform and to reconstruct the text. Productive exercises are focused on learners’ skills development to make full creative statements in a foreign language. A teacher can use these exercises both in universities and other educational institutions.