The article is devoted to the methodological features of teaching Uzbek as a foreign language in primary school. It describes the difficulties in working with productive types of speech activity, shows the main stages of formation of phonetic skills in students of primary school age. Simultaneously with the development of correct pronunciation skills and the assimilation of speech norms, lexical material corresponding to the given training level is introduced. The peculiarities of working with a dictionary at this stage require the correct selection of lexical units that pass from a passive dictionary to an active one.