The textbook as a means of forming study activity: why do we need textbooks in developmental learning?

Abstract

This article analyzes, based on the theoretical and practical experience accumulated by the author during years of developing textbooks for Russian language learning within the D.B. Elkonin-V.V. Davidov psychological-didactic system as a collaborator of V.V. Repkin. The thesis is argued that the textbook is essential for the development of language learning in the early years of primary education, when its most important function is to provide conditions for students to reproduce the processes of significant analysis and generalization of the properties of the studied theme in the form of a study dialogue. Therefore, the main characteristic of the textbook in developmental learning is that it must be dialogic.