IMPLEMENTING AUDIO-LINGUAL METHOD TO TEACHING UKRAINIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE AT THE INITIAL STAGE

Larysa Bidenko,Hanna Bespalova

doi:10.20535/2410-8286.82711

Larysa Bidenko, Hanna Bespalova

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https://doi.org/10.20535/2410-8286.82711

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Abstract

The article presents the audio-lingual model of teaching Ukrainian as a foreign language at the initial stage. The authors outline the main approaches to the understanding the concept “method”, and discuss the previous experience of using the audio-lingual method. The founders of the audio-lingual method assumed the use of a target language as the only instrument during language learning process, though further researches proved that using the native language as an aid is more effective. To correct this drawback, the authors suggest using the audio-lingual method in connection with other teaching methods. The method in authors’ interpretation has cultural orientation and helps foreign students to adapt to a new environment. The authors describe the model, where the audio-lingual method serves only for introducing new vocabulary and grammatical structures. It involves multiple listening and repeating speech patterns and promotes to audio-oral habit-formation. The students, at this stage, have to repeat and memorise new linguistic structures. To bring them together, the authors propose to use additional communicative and grammatical activities. Such a contents structure lays the foundation for the final stage of the learning process – the production of students’ own text. The key examples of the exercises based on the method are introduced.

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Nowadays, teaching Ukrainian as a foreign language in higher education establishments assumes, first of all, forming language, communicative and sociocultural competences
Up to now there still exists a controversy between requirements for forming communicative skills and the real level of these skills in the process of language learning at preparatory departments
The article is aimed at justifying the use of audio-lingual method of teaching Ukrainian as a foreign language to form communicative competence of foreign students at the initial stage of their language learning

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Nowadays, teaching Ukrainian as a foreign language in higher education establishments assumes, first of all, forming language, communicative and sociocultural competences. This can be realised due to the study of communicative needs, the acquisition of language and speech knowledge, with the emphasis on humanistic worldview during intercultural communication. Up to now there still exists a controversy between requirements for forming communicative skills and the real level of these skills in the process of language learning at preparatory departments In our opinion, this is the reason of constant search for new and better methods that allow a higher level of language proficiency. The article is aimed at justifying the use of audio-lingual method of teaching Ukrainian as a foreign language to form communicative competence of foreign students at the initial stage of their language learning

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