Methodologic specificities of developing Russian-speaking students’ monologic skills in Ukrainian

Abstract

The article deals with the problems related to the peculiarities of teaching the Ukrainian language to Russian-speaking students under conditions of Pridnestrovie. The relevance of this study is to create a methodology for the development of the Ukrainian monologic speech of Russian-speaking students as a necessary condition for the development and functioning of the official Ukrainian language. The purpose of the article is to consider the psycholinguistic and methodological aspects of the development of one of the speech competence components – oral monologic speech of Russian-speaking students, to determine the ways, means and methods of developing and improving students’ skills to build monologic statements dedicated to everyday and professional topics. The objectives of the study are as follows: analysis of educational and scientific literature on the problem dealing with the development of the Russian-speaking students’ Ukrainian monologic speech. Taking into account the concretization of the tasks, the study involved a theoretical analysis of scientific and pedagogic literature, which allowed us to find out the modern approaches of scholars to the development of monologic speech within a foreign language environment. These methods were used: analysis, comparison, generalization and systematization of data of educational and scientific literature, pedagogical experience, conceptual provisions of the problem under study, and defining of the main concepts of the study. The article substantiates the importance of optimal selection and expediency of using General didactic and linguo-didactic principles, methods and techniques for effective developing of oral Ukrainian speech of the first-year students who speak Russian as their mother tongue. It is determined that the universal didactic and special principles make it possible to build an optimal system of methods and techniques, means and forms of organization and implementation of the task of monologic skills development. It is found out that the effectiveness of improving the students’ monologic speech depends on the appropriate choice and application of various linguo-didactic methods and techniques, their features and classification approaches. The teaching methods were elaborated based on the principles described in the article which, in its turn, determine the training methods and techniques as well as substantiate the selection of appropriate exercises, tasks, and other means; they constitute the linguo-didactic support for the process related to the developing of Ukrainian oral monologue.