LANGUAGE POLICY OF UKRAINE: METHODOLOGY OF ANGLICIZATION IN EDUCATION

Abstract

The object of the article’s research is the policy of Anglicization in the field of education. The purpose of the article is to reveal the problem of anglicization on the basis of the official educational documents «Conceptual principles of state policy regarding the development of the English language in the field of higher education» (2012) and «Methodological recommendations for ensuring high-quality study, teaching and use of the English language in higher educational institutions of Ukraine» (2023) as threatening the state status of the Ukrainian language. Among the tasks is to analyze the nature of Anglicization in the educational and legislative field of Ukraine. The subject of the study is the principles, methodological recommendations and legislative initiatives of Anglicization in the educational field of Ukraine. In the research, we apply the national principle of assessment of sociolinguistic phenomena and the analytical-descriptive method, which makes it possible to reveal the xenophilic nature of language policy in the conditions of war. As a result of the adopted «Conceptual principles...» (2014), «Methodological recommendations...» (2023) and a number of other proposals, the English language acquires the highest level of prestige, eliminating the state Ukrainian language from apriority position in the field of education. The neutralization of the Ukrainian language occurs from within and without: from within - through the introduction of courses in professional disciplines in English, English for professional purposes and for academic purposes with passing exams as a condition for the career growth of the teaching staff; from without - through the planned transformation of the status of the English language in the legislative field of Ukraine. The spread of the English language should by no means narrow the scope of the Ukrainian language in its own state, and not only because the Ukrainian language has nowhere else to develop as in Ukraine. The officialization and protection of the Ukrainian language in the educational field is a preserved national identity. It is the imbalance between the state Ukrainian language and the dominance of both Russian and English that causes reasonable concern about the independence of our Ukrainian perspective and the subjectivity of Ukraine on the world political chessboard.