LANGUAGE PREFERENCES IN EDUCATION AMONG STUDENTS OF HUNGARIAN-LANGUAGES SCHOOLS OF TRANSCARPATHIAN REGION (BY THE FOCUS GROUPS RESULTS)

Abstract

The article is devoted to a topical issue – namely language preferences in education among students of Hungarian-language schools in Transcarpathia (according to the results of focus groups). The article focuses on the situation in education around the Hungarian national minority. Which compactly lives in some part of the Transcarpathian region and Ukrainian. Ukrainian is not a native language for the majority of this population. According to the analysis of external evaluation results in significant failure of students and reduces their chances of further education in Ukraine. The results of the project of the Ukrainian Association of Educational Researchers "At educational crossroads: dialogue with national minorities in Chernivtsi and Zakarpattia regions" are presented, including the results of 6 focus groups with teachers, students and parents of children from Hungarian-language schools. It is noted that the possible introduction of a language article is directly related to economic factors and the situation in Ukraine. The study of the Ukrainian language in schools related to providing young people with career opportunities that are no worse than those that young people receive in their “Great Matherland "or other countries bordering Ukraine. Attention is focused on the need to take into account that the main obstacles in the study of the Ukrainian language are: - insufficient provision of schools with specialists and the threat of outflow of experienced teachers from schools who may leave teaching; practical absence of the environment of Ukrainian-language communication and Ukrainian-language information space in places of compact residence of national minorities in Ukraine.