DEVELOPMENT OF LEXICAL COMPETENCE AND VOCABULARY STANDARDS OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

The process of organizing and carrying out educational activities includes knowledge transfer, its reception, understanding, memorization and practical application. At present time a special importance is drawn to the introduction of new modern technologies, their effective and rational use, and the achievement of high efficiency at all stages of education. The teaching of using modern technologies allows students to independently acquire scientific and theoretical knowledge, to form knowledge, skills and qualifications, and on the basis of this, the scientific outlook of students is formed, and their activity increases. The main goal of all innovative education is to develop a passion for learning in students and turn it into a skill. This educational process implies the active participation of the student in educational activities and the development of his creative abilities. Vocabulary has traditionally not received the attention it deserves, usually lumped together with other types of competence until the 1980s and 1990s, when researchers began to focus on it with greater interest. The given paper also includes the discussion regarding the concept of lexical competence and consideration of lexical researchers conceptualize its dimensions, in particular, the breadth and depth of vocabulary knowledge. Additionally, a particular attention is paid to the data from ongoing cross-sectional research on lexical competence in the upper grades and discuss different ways in which these measures of lexical competence can be measured.