The peculiarities of formation of ukrainian-language communicative competence of foreign students

Abstract

The article deals with the peculiarities of learning the Ukrainian language by foreign applicants for higher education. Based on the personal practice, analysis, and generalization of scientific sources, the author outlines the peculiarities of the formation of Ukrainian-language competence of foreign students. The emphasis is placed on the formation of their communication skills as a necessary component of learning a foreign language.

The author characterizes the content of the concept of “Ukrainian-language communicative competence” in terms of teaching Ukrainian as a foreign language. This concept is defined as establishing and maintaining the necessary contacts in the Ukrainian-speaking environment based on knowledge, skills, and abilities possessed by foreign communicators, taking into account the content, needs, motives and social norms of behavior in a particular situation.

It is very important to engage a language class in communication situations, which allows the students to remember the vocabulary and grammar of the Ukrainian language better. This can be achieved by using various forms of organization of foreign students’ education.

The article presents a system of communicatively oriented tasks and exercises for the formation and improvement of communicative competence of foreign students. The system of exercises is aimed at gaining knowledge and skills in the main types of speech activities, which are implemented in both written and oral forms.

The communicative situations offered in the study of Ukrainian as a foreign language should reproduce the speech process in real life, which will encourage foreign students to communicate.

The author argues that repeating similar phrases in the same type answers is a useful method as this allows students to improve their language, quickly choose the right words, word combinations, and whole constructions.

Prospects for further research are to improve and develop a system of tasks and exercises for the development and improvement of all types of speech activities of foreign students.