Theoretical preconditions for the formation of foreign phonetic competence in children of upper-kindergarten age by means of authentic materials

The question of effective learning of the English language in institutions of preschool education is especially relevant nowadays, all basic skills, including phonetics, are laid.Changes in the nature of education are more and more clearly oriented towards "free human development", creative initiative, independence of learners, competitiveness, mobility of future specialists.It is known that the goal of foreign language education is the formation of foreign language communicative competence, which in turn includes language, speech, linguistic, sociocultural and strategic competences.The study of foreign language should form a personality capable and willing to participate in intercultural communication.But such communication will be impossible without a formed phonetic competence.The issue of developing learners' foreign phonetic competence has been extensively explored in the research of I. Bekh, S. Honcharenko, I. Kozlovska, S. Klepko, A. Kolomiets, V. Ilchenko, O. Rudnytska, O. Savchenko, S. Tkachenko, among others.