MODEL OF MORAL QUALITIES FORMATION OF YOUNGER SCHOOLCHILDREN BY MEANS OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDUCATION

The current stage of development of the Russian education system is characterized by significant reforms, political and socio-economic reorganizations that fundamentally change the sociocultural situation in which the moral formation and development of a person's personality is proceeding. Unemployment and rising poverty inevitably lead to the loss of cultural, spiritual and moral values. The spiritual crisis in the country makes the task of modernization of Russian education be urgent, which, in turn, is impossible without moral education. Despite the existence of numerous state documents concerning the improvements of the process of moral education, the solution of this problem cannot be considered as a final. As the educational process is based on interpersonal communication, foreign language teaching has certain advantages in terms of the formation of universal human values. It allows to influence the formation of moral attitudes of students. The analysis of the educational and methodological complexes for foreign language teaching in elementary school showed the fragmentary nature of moral-oriented tasks and the lack of a consistent educational strategy focused on the moral formation of the student’s personality. In this article, the possibility of the educational impact of foreign language education is presented by a theoretical model, the purpose of which is the formation of younger schoolchildren moral qualities. It is possible by using the functional transfer, which involves understanding and comparing the social and moral experience formed as a result of the native language studying with the acquired communicative experience in moral-oriented interaction at foreign language lessons. It is fundamentally important to involve a comparison of native and foreign cultures in language learning. As a result, the moral attitudes and interest to studying foreign language culture are formed.