Abstract
The purpose of the article is to analyze the theoretical foundations of systematizing primary school Kazakh students’ lexical skills and substantiate the didactic conditions for developing their lexical competence in the context of the language learning modern paradigm, which includes not only a cognitive but also a functional-communicative way of language learning. To achieve this goal, the following tasks are solved: to summarize the available theoretical and practical material for structuring and systematizing lexical material in order to use more rational and logical memorizing techniques, identify the principles of the thesaurus minimum selection and the features of its presentation. The study of the extralinguistic and general linguistic nature of the thematic group and the description of the associative relationships of words in its composition would solve not only the problem of the systemic organization of lexical material, but also consider the thematic differentiation of vocabulary as a linguistic phenomenon. The article concludes that the significance of the cognitive description of vocabulary is based on the use of the thesaurus method and the method of presenting lexical semantics in the frame theory, taking into account the addressee - primary school students, through the use of systemic-functional, cognitive and thematic approaches. In organizing thematic vocabulary, it is necessary to take into account, in addition to cognitive activity, their relatively stable, generalized structures of past experience, which are based on anticipation.