The Collaborative Teacher-Pupil Activity as a Condition of Children’ Communicative Competence Development

Nowadays the competence approach changes the traditional views for communication between teachers and pupils. The objective of this research is to examine children’ communicative competence development in pre-school institutions. As the basic approach of the paper, the collaborative teacher-pupil activity includes: firstly, the revealing of communication obstacles; secondly, offering main characteristics of the open joint activity and finally, observing the collaborative teacher-pupil activity at pre-school classes. The author uses the comparative analysis of close and open joint activities as the main method of the article. As a result, the fact, demonstrating an adult's position in the communicative competence development, is the most vital condition for this activity. In general, the building of the open joint activity becomes a key goal for preschool teachers.