Formation and development of the language training methodology for foreign students at classical universities. Part 3. Teaching the Ukrainian language

Abstract

The article is another part of a series of scientific and methodical studies on the formation and development of language training methods for foreign students at classical university. Previous research has analyzed the formation of the conceptual foundations of language training of educational migrants of various study profiles, the history, principles, and features of language education of students of higher education of non-linguistic and philological specialties based on the activity of the Language Training Department 1 of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. The third part is devoted to the analysis of problems and achievements of the department in teaching Ukrainian as a foreign language. The gradual transition to teaching the state language was carried out from the end of the 90-s of the XX century. This required a rethinking of methodological approaches and principles, the development of principles and provisions of the methodology of teaching Ukrainian as a foreign language, and educational and methodical support of the teaching process. The research tools of the article as a part of the series are the method of systematic analysis of the scientific work on the linguistic problems of the Ukrainian language done by the department’s specialists, characteristics of dissertation studies, scientific publications, didactic work, and their methodical implementations. The main stages of the formation of the methodological foundations of teaching Ukrainian as a foreign language at classical university, the optimal methods of teaching language aspects, the formation of speech activity skills, the intercultural communication are also highlighted in the paper. The authors defined the main scientific and methodological principles and components of the educational process organization (in particular, the development of the program as one of the main factors in the creation of methodical and informational support for language training of foreign students studying at Ukrainian universities). The authors relied on the concept of language education of foreigners presented in the first article of the series, the structure of the modern educational paradigm, analysis of the influence of the competence approach on curricula creation, and professionally oriented language training of foreigners. The article also contains an analysis of some educational and methodical Ukrainian language guides and manuals that have been used for forming components of communicative competence of educational migrants during language acquisition in a new social-cultural environment, in the academic space of a Ukrainian classical university.

Keywords

• classical university
• foreign students of higher education
• ukrainian as a foreign language