A PRACTICAL AS THE MAIN FORM OF THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS ON THE DISCIPLINE “UKRAINIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE” AT THE HIGHER SCHOOL

Abstract

A practical is the main form of students' educational activity at the higher educational institutions on the discipline “Ukrainian as a Foreign Language”. Practicals at the higher educational establishment provide students with the detailed consideration of certain theoretical basics of the discipline. They also suggest the formation of skills and abilities, their practical application by the individual, fulfillment of the student's formulated tasks and solving situational problems. Based on the topic “Appearance Description”, the article presents the structure and meaningful content of a practical lesson in Ukrainian as a foreign language.
 The course of study is structured according to the requirements for practicals at the higher school and adapted to the communicative needs of foreign students studying in Ukraine. The structure of the lesson consists of five stages: organizational part, mastering vocabulary on the topic, performing training exercises, working with the text, current control. The content of a course corresponds to the program of the discipline “Ukrainian as a Foreign Language”, the task is built with regard to the program requirements and is subordinated to the objective of the discipline i.e. to provide basic communicative needs of foreign students in the everyday life, educational and professional spheres. The developed system of exercises is intended to form and improve different types of speech activity (listening, speaking, reading and writing). Knowledge of vocabulary for describing a person’s appearance, ability to build monologues, initiate and conduct a dialogue on the topic, skills to reconcile adjectives, personal and possessive pronouns with nouns in the genus, numbers and case allow to ensure the implementation of communicative needs in communicative needs and needs household, socio-cultural, official-business, educational-professional.