Abstract
Teaching Ukrainian as a foreign language requires a competent combination of traditional forms of learning and the possibilities of IT technologies. This study has been conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of IT technologies introduction in the educational process during the study of Ukrainian phraseology by foreign students. Authors conducted an experiment, which involved the introduction of IT technologies in the process of gradual study of phraseology at the lessons of Ukrainian as a foreign language during the academic year. 20 foreign students of the 3rd year participated in the experiment, from whom an experimental and control group of 10 students each was formed. Pre- and post-experimental tests to compare academic achievements, pre- and post-experimental surveys, informal interviews, observations of participants in the learning process were used as a means of data collection. The authors provided a system of tasks using Internet communications, computer presentations, online dictionaries, elements of the blended learning system for each stage of working with phraseological units. The obtained results confirmed the hypothesis: the use of IT technologies in the study of phraseologisms by foreign students increases their motivation for learning, and, as a consequence, improves learning performance. Indicators of academic achievement of the experimental group exceeded the starting level, while the control group noted a decrease in the indicators of academic achievement. Prospective directions for further research may be related to theoretical generalisations in the field of methodology of teaching Ukrainian as a foreign language, as well as to the development and implementation of modern complex methods using IT technologies.
Highlights
Today, Ukraine has outlined new priorities for the development and upgrading of the education system
In accordance with the stated aim, scientific comprehension and analysis of the problem have been carried out in synchronous terms. They have been implemented in four specific forms: - a synchronous-descriptive research method related to observations and classification with a view to their further synthesis and generalisation and to determine the productivity of the use of a particular method; - a descriptive method used to analyse the survey of all foreign students who participated in the experiment; - a comparative method for highlighting the most effective information technologies; - an experiment as a purposeful observation during the experimental testing of the step-by-step study of Ukrainian phraseology in a foreign language classroom using information technologies
The following questions were asked during the survey: 1) Do you understand the meaning of phraseologisms in the speech of Ukrainians ? 2) Do you use phraseology in oral and written speech? 3) What problems do you have when using phraseologisms? 4) What exercises were the most interesting to perform in the study of phraseologisms in Ukrainian language classes in previous courses and why? 5) What tasks were the most difficult and why? We conducted informal interviews with students to find out their personal attitudes to deepening their foreign language skills, to methods of learning language phraseologisms, to using phraseologisms in speech for effective communication between people of different languages, or whether there is a desire to improve Ukrainian language skills
Summary
Ukraine has outlined new priorities for the development and upgrading of the education system. There are a number of papers that investigated the techniques for relevant word ranking and extraction (Ventura & Silva, 2007), effectiveness of IT for the automatic definition of terms in semantic content (Krak, Barmak & Mazurets, 2016, 2018), the method of generalising grammatical structures for text translation using a computer (Krak, Barmak & Romanyshyn, 2014), the text system for alternative conversational communications (Krak et al, 2017) The results of these studies are presented in publications to the Scopus Scientometric Database
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