Університети і лідерство (Jun 2021)
Methodology of Ukrainian for Professional Purposes as a branch of Ukrainian language didactics
Abstract
The relevance of the topic of the article is determined by the necessity of studying the objective preconditions for the establishment and development of the methodology of teaching Ukrainian for Professional Purposes as a new branch of linguodidactics and creation of a holistic scientific and methodological system of teaching the course at pedagogical institutions of higher education. The work aims to figure out the essence of the “methodology of teaching Ukrainian for Professional Purposes” concept, the specificity of formation of this branch of linguodidactics, its interscientific bases, process structure, and regularities of historical development. The methodological basis of the research consists of the comparative, retrospective, systemic and chronological approaches. A set of methods has been used during the study: reflexive and comparative analysis, visualisation, mathematical and statistical processing, generalisation. The article determines five fundamental scientific platforms that ensure the theoretical and methodological content of the branch of linguodidactics: the platforms of linguistics, documentation science, scientific research, psychology, professional pedagogy. The fact that the development of the methodology of teaching Ukrainian for Professional Purposes as a new branch of linguodidactics requires synthesis of theoretical and applied aspects for the formulation of initial statements and conduction of independent scientific and methodological research into this sphere, which, in its turn, has a reverse impact on the practice of teaching Ukrainian for Professional Purposes, has been emphasized. The study of the historical past, particularly the period of the emergence of the educational course, has shown that the formation of the methodology of teaching this discipline as a branch of Ukrainian linguodidactics had been taking place according to the requirements of the time and based on the practical experience of teaching. Based on studying the dynamics of the scientific interest in the methodology of teaching Ukrainian for Professional Purposes between 1994 and 2020, a low level of consideration of the methodological aspects of teaching the course in scientific publications has been determined (10 %) and acknowledged as insufficient for the development of a holistic scientific and methodological system of teaching the discipline at pedagogical institutions of higher education.
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