Common Vocabulary Research Articles

PECULIARITIES OF OBSOLETE VOCABULARY USAGE IN THE NOVEL «BLOOD BROTHERS…» BY VASYL SHEVCHUK

Background. One of the indicative characteristics of human language, especially which has a significant number of speakers, is the ability to changes. According to historical and cultural context, a language can undergo changes at different levels. Mostly both the emergence of new words and the disappearance of those that already exist in the language, are associated with technological progress, intercultural contacts, socio-political processes, etc., and all these processes are quite dynamic. Since events in these areas of life are relatively fast, the vocabulary must change at the appropriate pace to meet the needs of speakers. Therefore, in accordance with the above, we can say that the language contains both active and passive vocabulary. Active vocabulary includes common vocabulary, as well as some special vocabulary (mostly general scientific terms), which is also actively used. Accordingly, the passive stock consists of words that speakers use almost or not at all in everyday communication, using them only in certain areas of activity. These can be stylistically colored words (such as poetics), obsolete (archaisms and historicisms) or new ones (neologisms) and limited in use by a certain social stratum (jargon, professionalisms) or territory (exoticisms, dialectisms).
 The purpose of our investigation is the analysis of lexico-semantic features of historicisms and archaisms in the novel «Brothers…» by Vasyl Shevchuk.
 Methods. The choice of research methods depends on the purpose of the article, its objectives and the object of study. In our scientific work general scientific methods of analysis, synthesis, comparison are used; linguistic methods, in particular, such as descriptive one – to interpret the meaning of obsolete units; the method of integrative analysis, which is the basis of a comprehensive study of a set of various aspects that we touch on when studying outdated vocabulary in the literary text, as well as contextual-interpretive method – to describe possible strategies for perceiving the literary text.
 Results. Archaisms and historicisms are those units that were already obsolete at the time of publication of the novel (because the exact date of its writing is unknown). This will make it possible to single out those obsolete words that the author used intentionally, for a specific purpose, and which in terms of synchronicity were already obsolete during his lifetime. It is the stylistically conditioned use of archaic units of vocabulary that we need for further analysis of their role in the language of the work and its poetics in general. Guided by this principle, we can determine that the author used 300 units of outdated vocabulary within the novel (excluding word forms of one word and repetitions). Regarding the differentiation of this vocabulary into archaisms and historicisms, we can say that their relationship is as follows: of the 301 obsolete lexical units, 87 words are archaisms, and 214 are historicisms.
 Discussion. According to the denotation criterion, we determined that the novel is predominated by historicisms (which in its semantics can be divided into supergroups «State and Society», «Military Action and the Army», «Life, consumer goods», which contain relevant groups of vocabulary) . Somewhat less common are archaisms, which can be divided primarily on a formal basis, i.e. on what level archaism belongs to outdated linguistic units (phonetic, morphological, word-forming, semantic or lexical); lexical archaisms can be divided into some thematic groups (such as architectural terms, names of diseases, body parts, etc.). The prospects of the investigation relate to the study of its translation into English.

Project Engineering for the Depollution of Industrial Sites: a Model‐Based and Systems‐of‐Systems Approach

ABSTRACTThis work addresses the challenges associated with depolluting brownfields or industrial sites, emphasizing the significant societal, financial, and environmental implications. Current depollution projects are often treated in an ad‐hoc manner, lacking a systematic and industrial perspective, despite the growing number of such projects. The proposed method advocates for a structured approach grounded in systems engineering principles, aiming to enhance collaboration among stakeholders, preserve knowledge, and facilitate the industrial transformation of depollution efforts. The method encompasses elements such as establishing a common vocabulary, employing modeling languages, implementing a double operational approach, providing supportive tools, and managing shared knowledge to improve project design, execution, and collaboration across multiple companies.

BIGOWL4DQ: Ontology-driven approach for Big Data quality meta-modelling, selection and reasoning

Context:Data quality should be at the core of many Artificial Intelligence initiatives from the very first moment in which data is required for a successful analysis. Measurement and evaluation of the level of quality are crucial to determining whether data can be used for the tasks at hand. Conscientious of this importance, industry and academia have proposed several data quality measurements and assessment frameworks over the last two decades. Unfortunately, there is no common and shared vocabulary for data quality terms. Thus, it is difficult and time-consuming to integrate data quality analysis within a (Big) Data workflow for performing Artificial Intelligence tasks. One of the main reasons is that, except for a reduced number of proposals, the presented vocabularies are neither machine-readable nor processable, needing human processing to be incorporated. Objective:This paper proposes a unified data quality measurement and assessment information model. This model can be used in different environments and contexts to describe data quality measurement and evaluation concerns. Method:The model has been developed as an ontology to make it interoperable and machine-readable. For better interoperability and applicability, this ontology, BIGOWL4DQ, has been developed as an extension of a previously developed ontology for describing knowledge management in Big Data analytics. Conclusions:This extended ontology provides a data quality measurement and assessment framework required when designing Artificial Intelligence workflows and integrated reasoning capacities. Thus, BIGOWL4DQ can be used to describe Big Data analysis and assess the data quality before the analysis. Result:Our proposal has been validated with two use cases. First, the semantic proposal has been assessed using an academic use case. And second, a real-world case study within an Artificial Intelligence workflow has been conducted to endorse our work.

The Proficiency of Private Gökçeada Rum Schools Students' in the Common Turkish-Greek Vocabulary

This study is a research measuring the proficiency of the common Turkish-Greek vocabulary in Rum minority schools in Çanakkale. A qualitative research method was employed in the study, which is descriptive and aims to reveal an existing situation. The study group for this research was determined using purposive sampling method. The main source of the study is the work titled 'To Kino Leksilogio tis Ellinikis ke Turkikis Glossas,' written by Maria Dimasi and Ahmet Nizam in Greece, which focuses on the common Turkish-Greek vocabulary. Two hundred words from this work were selected, and a commission of experts, fluent in both languages, was formed to create three different measurement tools. These tools were then applied to the students of Private Gökçeada Rum Elementary School, Private Gökçeada Rum Middle School, and Private Gökçeada Rum High School. It has been determined that at least 90% or more of the 200 words in this study were known in at least one language.

BigDaM: Efficient Big Data Management and Interoperability Middleware for Seaports as Critical Infrastructures

Over the last few years, the European Union (EU) has placed significant emphasis on the interoperability of critical infrastructures (CIs). One of the main CI transportation infrastructures are ports. The control systems managing such infrastructures are constantly evolving and handle diverse sets of people, data, and processes. Additionally, interdependencies among different infrastructures can lead to discrepancies in data models that propagate and intensify across interconnected systems. This article introduces “BigDaM”, a Big Data Management framework for critical infrastructures. It is a cutting-edge data model that adheres to the latest technological standards and aims to consolidate APIs and services within highly complex CI infrastructures. Our approach takes a bottom-up perspective, treating each service interconnection as an autonomous entity that must align with the proposed common vocabulary and data model. By injecting strict guidelines into the service/component development’s lifecycle, we explicitly promote interoperability among the services within critical infrastructure ecosystems. This approach facilitates the exchange and reuse of data from a shared repository among developers, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and large vendors. Business challenges have also been taken into account, in order to link the generated data assets of CIs with the business world. The complete framework has been tested in the main EU ports, part of the transportation sector of CIs. Performance evaluation and the aforementioned testing is also being analyzed, highlighting the capabilities of the proposed approach.

Derivational peculiarities of the high style vocabulary in the lyrics of I.A. Brodsky and A.A. Tarkovsky

The article is devoted to the word-formation features of high style vocabulary on the material of I.A. Brodsky’s and A.A. Tarkovsky poetry. The author shows the continuity of the poetic language of Brodsky and Tarkovsky with the heritage of Pushkin, and links lexical resources used by these poets with the corpus of Slavic words in the Russian literary language. The productivity of book word-formation type of nominative and objectifical names with abstract feature with suffixes -ость/- есть, -ство/-ество, lexical apophathisms, formed by prefix-suffixal method with prefixes без- and не-; the productivity of book-poetic verbal nouns with suffixes --ениj-/-ниj-, verbal derivatives of nouns with the suffix -тель; poets’ active use of participial forms. The conclusion is made about the commonality in the representation of stylistic synthesis by I.A. Brodsky and A.A. Tarkovsky. Along with the widely represented book vocabulary, their poetry reflects common and expressive vocabulary of colloquial style. Style synthesis testifies to the syncretism of the author’s perception of reality: subjective experience is combined with collective, value beginning.

More than Meets the Eye? Using Text Analytic Techniques to Unpack School Mission Statements

Schools develop mission statements in part to communicate their purposes of schooling to internal and external audiences. The goal of this study is to employ text analytic techniques to analyze school mission statements. Focusing on Arizona and New Jersey’s schools, we seek to understand: 1) what themes (topics) emerge from their mission statements, 2) whether local context (politics) and institutional factors (being a charter) mediate topic prevalence, and 3) how similar school mission statements are to one another overall and across select factors. Using structural topic modeling we find that five topics emerge as particularly prevalent, and they address key purposes within the US context related to social, academic, and civic development with an emphasis on a safe environment and a sense of community. Local political leanings have a minor impact on the prevalence of topics but being a charter has a distinct influence. Compared to regular schools, charters are more likely to include themes related to preparing for college, academic approaches, and character and family ties, but they place lower emphasis on community and citizenship themes. School missions display moderate levels of similarity, indicating that a common set vocabulary has permeated schools’ missions, though differences remain, including between states. Overall, this study deepens our understanding of the varieties of schools’ missions and reveals text analytic techniques are well suited for uncovering them.

Extraction of Interoperable Data from Healthcare Documents by Identifying Common Data Elements: An Analysis of Radiation Therapy Planning CT Physician Order Entry Records

Introduction: Documentation as well as IT-based management of medical data is of ever-increasing relevance in modern medicine. As radiation oncology is a rather technical, data-driven discipline, standardization, and data exchange are in principle possible. We examined electronic healthcare documents to extract structured information. Planning CT order entry documents were chosen for the analysis, as this covers a common and structured step in radiation oncology, for which standardized documentation may be achieved. The aim was to examine the extent to which relevant information may be exchanged among different institutions. Materials and Methods: We contacted representatives of nine radiation oncology departments. Departments using standardized electronic documentation for planning CT were asked to provide templates of their records, which were analyzed in terms of form and content. Structured information was extracted by identifying definite common data elements, containing explicit information. Relevant common data elements were identified and classified. A quantitative analysis was performed to evaluate the possibility of data exchange. Results: We received data of seven documents that were heterogeneous regarding form and content. 181 definite common data elements considered relevant for the planning CT were identified and assorted into five semantic groups. 139 data elements (76.8%) were present in only one document. The other 42 data elements were present in two to six documents, while none was shared among all seven documents. Conclusion: Structured and interoperable documentation of medical information can be achieved using common data elements. Our analysis showed that a lot of information recorded with healthcare documents can be presented with this approach. Yet, in the analyzed cohort of planning CT order entries, only a few common data elements were shared among the majority of documents. A common vocabulary and consensus upon relevant information is required to promote interoperability and standardization.

Organizing Scholarly Knowledge in the Open Research Knowledge Graph

The Open Research Knowledge Graph (ORKG) is an Open Science digital infrastructure for the production, curation, publication, and reuse of machine-actionable scholarly knowledge. Built on top of the RDF data model and extensible ontologies, the ORKG provides a common vocabulary for researchers to describe their research contributions and data, improving the discoverability and reusability of scholarly knowledge and research data. The ORKG includes tools for visualizing the relationships between different entities, making it easier to understand the connections between different pieces of research and their findings. It facilitates collaboration between researchers by providing a collaborative platform for organizing and sharing scholarly knowledge and data, reducing duplication and enabling more efficient use of resources. As research becomes increasingly data-driven, tools like the ORKG will become essential for enabling efficient, transparent, and collaborative research.

The Promise and Limits of Grounding in Law

AbstractDiscussions of metaphysical grounding have recently found their way into general jurisprudence. It is becoming increasingly common to frame the debate between positivism and antipositivism as a disagreement about what facts metaphysically ground legal facts. In this article we critically evaluate this grounding turn. First, we argue that articulating the debate about the nature of law in terms of grounding holds the promise of recasting it in a common vocabulary. Second, we argue that this comes at a cost: framing the debate in this way obscures a range of further disagreements that cannot be usefully analyzed in terms of metaphysical grounding. We conclude that grounding may give us a clearer picture of what we already knew, while obfuscating a number of important questions to which it cannot, and is not intended to, provide answers.

MI-Common Data Model: Extending Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership-Common Data Model (OMOP-CDM) for Registering Medical Imaging Metadata and Subsequent Curation Processes.

The explosion of big data and artificial intelligence has rapidly increased the need for integrated, homogenized, and harmonized health data. Many common data models (CDMs) and standard vocabularies have appeared in an attempt to offer harmonized access to the available information, with Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership (OMOP)-CDM being one of the most prominent ones, allowing the standardization and harmonization of health care information. However, despite its flexibility, still capturing imaging metadata along with the corresponding clinical data continues to pose a challenge. This challenge arises from the absence of a comprehensive standard representation for image-related information and subsequent image curation processes and their interlinkage with the respective clinical information. Successful resolution of this challenge holds the potential to enable imaging and clinical data to become harmonized, quality-checked, annotated, and ready to be used in conjunction, in the development of artificial intelligence models and other data-dependent use cases. To address this challenge, we introduce medical imaging (MI)-CDM-an extension of the OMOP-CDM specifically designed for registering medical imaging data and curation-related processes. Our modeling choices were the result of iterative numerous discussions among clinical and AI experts to enable the integration of imaging and clinical data in the context of the ProCAncer-I project, for answering a set of clinical questions across the prostate cancer's continuum. Our MI-CDM extension has been successfully implemented for the use case of prostate cancer for integrating imaging and curation metadata along with clinical information by using the OMOP-CDM and its oncology extension. By using our proposed terminologies and standardized attributes, we demonstrate how diverse imaging modalities can be seamlessly integrated in the future.

A Strategy for Building the WFO Plant List

A Strategy for Building the WFO Plant List

Pseudonyms and Nicknames as a Variety of Anthroponyms in Modern Prose

Such anthroponyms varieties as nicknames and pseudonyms are considered. The importance of using these poetonyms in the formation of the character’s image is revealed. Fiction works represent a unique sphere of using proper names, where words acquire meaning not only in the context of the real world, but also in the fictional reality created by the authors. Nicknames and pseudonyms are the anthroponymic field periphery, but they play an important role in the structure of a literary text. They act as a fixing way the development of the world and human experience. Proper names create linguistic diversity. The stylistic function of such proper names is different. They can act as a designation and characterization of the character. The proper names study clarifies the author’s intention and contributes to a deeper and more complete text interpretation. There are few works devoted to the study of the language of modern prose. In the literature, the proper name’s role in works of fiction has not been sufficiently studied. The study subject is the functions of these poetonymsin a literary text. The study object is pseudonyms and nicknames. Material — literary texts of different genres, published at the beginning of the 21st century and containing lexical units important for research. The work purpose is to identify the specifics of pseudonyms and nicknames and their role in artistic speech on the example of the texts of modern authors. The main theoretical base is the work related to the theory and linguistics of the text, onomastics. In the structure of a literary text, not only common vocabulary is used, but proper names. They play an important role in the structure of a literary text, evoking in the reader various allusions and associations associated with society and concepts. For the perception of any literary text, encyclopedic information is important, which allows you to understand the creative intent of the writer.

Comprehensive Ontology of Fibroproliferative Diseases: Protocol for a Semantic Technology Study.

Fibroproliferative or fibrotic diseases (FDs), which represent a significant proportion of age-related pathologies and account for over 40% of mortality in developed nations, are often underrepresented in focused research. Typically, these conditions are studied individually, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), rather than as a collective entity, thereby limiting the holistic understanding and development of effective treatments. To address this, we propose creating and publicizing a comprehensive fibroproliferative disease ontology (FDO) to unify the understanding of FDs. This paper aims to delineate the study protocol for the creation of the FDO, foster transparency and high quality standards during its development, and subsequently promote its use once it becomes publicly available. We aim to establish an ontology encapsulating the broad spectrum of FDs, constructed in the Web Ontology Language format using the Protégé ontology editor, adhering to ontology development life cycle principles. The modeling process will leverage Protégé in accordance with a methodologically defined process, involving targeted scoping reviews of MEDLINE and PubMed information, expert knowledge, and an ontology development process. A hybrid top-down and bottom-up strategy will guide the identification of core concepts and relations, conducted by a team of domain experts based on systematic iterations of scientific literature reviews. The result will be an exhaustive FDO accommodating a wide variety of crucial biomedical concepts, augmented with synonyms, definitions, and references. The FDO aims to encapsulate diverse perspectives on the FD domain, including those of clinicians, health informaticians, medical researchers, and public health experts. The FDO is expected to stimulate broader and more in-depth FD research by enabling reasoning, inference, and the identification of relationships between concepts for application in multiple contexts, such as developing specialized software, fostering research communities, and enhancing domain comprehension. A common vocabulary and understanding of relationships among medical professionals could potentially expedite scientific progress and the discovery of innovative solutions. The publicly available FDO will form the foundation for future research, technological advancements, and public health initiatives. PRR1-10.2196/48645.

ARCHITECTURAL HEALTH DATA STANDARDS AND SEMANTIC INTEROPERABILITY: A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW IN THE CONTEXT OF INTEGRATING MEDICAL DATA INTO BIG DATA ANALYTICS.

The integration of medical data into Big Data analytics holds significant potential for advancing healthcare practices and research. However, achieving semantics interoperability, wherein data is exchanged and interpreted accurately among diverse systems, is a critical challenge. This study explores the impact of existing architectures on semantics interoperability in the context of integrating medical data into Big Data analytics. The study highlights the complexities involved in integrating medical data from various sources, each using different formats, data models, and vocabularies. Without a strong emphasis on semantic interoperability, data integration efforts can result in misinterpretations, inconsistencies, and errors, adversely affecting patient care and research outcomes. The significance of data standards and ontologies in establishing a common vocabulary and structure for medical data integration is underscored. Additionally, the importance of data mapping and transformation is discussed, as data discrepancies can lead to data loss and incorrect analysis results. The success of integrating medical data into Big Data analytics is heavily reliant on existing architectures that prioritize semantics interoperability. A welldesigned architecture addresses data heterogeneity, promotes semantic consistency, and supports data standardization, unlocking the transformative capabilities of medical data analysis for improved healthcare outcomes.

An Infrastructure Framework for Remote Patient Monitoring Interventions and Research.

Remote patient monitoring (RPM) enables clinicians to maintain and adjust their patients' plan of care by using remotely gathered data, such as vital signs, to proactively make medical decisions about a patient's care. RPM interventions have been touted as a means to improve patient care and well-being while reducing costs and resource needs within the health care ecosystem. However, multiple interworking components must be successfully implemented for an RPM intervention to yield the desired outcomes, and the design and key driver of each component can vary depending on the medical context. This viewpoint and perspective paper presents a 4-component RPM infrastructure framework based on a synthesis of existing literature and practice related to RPM. Specifically, these components are identified and considered: (1) data collection, (2) data transmission and storage, (3) data analysis, and (4) information presentation. Interaction points to consider between components include transmission, interoperability, accessibility, workflow integration, and transparency. Within each of the 4 components, questions affecting research and practice emerge that can affect the outcomes of RPM interventions. This framework provides a holistic perspective of the technologies involved in RPM interventions and how these core elements interact to provide an appropriate infrastructure for deploying RPM in health systems. Further, it provides a common vocabulary to compare and contrast RPM solutions across health contexts and may stimulate new research and intervention opportunities.

Encoding Variables, Evaluation Criteria, and Evaluation Methods for Data Physicalisations: A Review

Data physicalisations, or physical visualisations, represent data physically, using variable properties of physical media. As an emerging area, Data physicalisation research needs conceptual foundations to support thinking about and designing new physical representations of data and evaluating them. Yet, it remains unclear at the moment (i) what encoding variables are at the designer’s disposal during the creation of physicalisations, (ii) what evaluation criteria could be useful, and (iii) what methods can be used to evaluate physicalisations. This article addresses these three questions through a narrative review and a systematic review. The narrative review draws on the literature from Information Visualisation, HCI and Cartography to provide a holistic view of encoding variables for data. The systematic review looks closely into the evaluation criteria and methods that can be used to evaluate data physicalisations. Both reviews offer a conceptual framework for researchers and designers interested in designing and evaluating data physicalisations. The framework can be used as a common vocabulary to describe physicalisations and to identify design opportunities. We also proposed a seven-stage model for designing and evaluating physical data representations. The model can be used to guide the design of physicalisations and ideate along the stages identified. The evaluation criteria and methods extracted during the work can inform the assessment of existing and future data physicalisation artefacts.

Let us March to the Bazar with Shackles in Feet

The bazar is the stage of ethical contestation, and the place of laying claim to Truth; it becomes the Holy Altar of Sacrifice. It is the place of ultimate witnessing, of shahādat, or martyrdom which is essentially the witnessing of Truth in the form of submission of the self into the Self, a sublimation of the soul into the Soul, a finding of contingent being into Absolute Being, a journey from wujūd to Wujūd. But that submission, paradoxically, must also be witnessed so that it can be known, and thus found, that is, become maujūd (existent)—there must needs be a shahāda of the shahādat, a witnessing of the Witnessing, and that witnessing must take place in the bazar, the centre of the spectacle—the jalwa, the tajallī, the spectacular Divine Deployment through Self-manifestation. For without witnessing, there’s no knowing and without knowing, no realization of Divine Self-knowledge of Absolute Being. That is why all the lovers of the Beloved, the ‘āshiqīn of al-Ḥaq̣q̣ al-Jamāl, of Truth-Beauty, must dance in the bazar, the quintessential site of the manifestation of the Beloved as Truth-Beauty, and also as Love in, and through, the lovers’ ecstatic dance. The lovers must dance in the company of the Beloved, at the sight of Her Self-disclosure, Her Unveiling, that is, in the bazar, the central square before being slaughtered on the square. They must do so, so that their shahādat of Truth in love, their intense witnessing of Truth through sacrificing of their self in love, their martyrdom that is, can be witnessed and known by other lovers and by the Beloved as a spectacular manifestation of Truth, Beauty, and Being. That is what the iconic martyr of love, shahīd-e ‘ishq, Hussain b. Mansur al-Hallaj brought upon himself, and sacrificing his self into the Self out of love—self-sacrifice being an inherent quality and condition of ‘ishq love—turned the scene of his spectacular public qattāl, his intense assassination in the bazar, the central square, into a tajallī, into Divine Self-disclosure itself. That is, in this intensified witnessing through annihilation of the self into the Self, the shāhid became shahīd, the witness became the martyr, and the lover became the Beloved, raising the spectacle of this witnessing to the level of tajallī, of Divine Deployment itself. And ever since, this tajallī has become common vocabulary in the phenomenological, metaphysical, and aesthetic tradition of Islam. In the realm of Urdu alone it has become common parlance in the popular poeticizations by Faiz Ahmed Faiz, such as in his oft-sung poem āj bāzār meñ pā-ba-jaulāñ chalo. Thus, all martyrs of love, like this ultimate martyr of love, dance in the bazar—the city square, the qalb, the heart, the pivot of inqilāb, of revolution—in the Beloved’s City and beckon others to the same fate. And they dance intoxicated and without fear—in fact, without pain or suffering, which is naught but their dam-sāz, the companion of their breath, their witness, and intimate friend—they dance instead in Joy of Divine Ecstasy. And in this state they invite more lovers, others whose hearts are afflicted with Truth to pack up their heart’s load, and yet again, go and be murdered, sacrifice themselves, and be martyred for and in Truth.

Консубстанциональные лексемы в терминологическом поле «хирургический инструментарий» (на примере терминов немецкого языка)

This article describes the reason for formation of consubstantial lexemes in the terminological field “surgical instruments” in the German language. The results of the analysis of the terms of this terminological field show that integration of the medical and common vocabulary, as well as the trends towards differentiation and specialization was the main characteristic of the conceptual apparatus of medicine throughout the whole existence of medical science in Germany. The process of terminologization was accompanied by a partial reconceptualization of commonly used lexemes. The presence of consubstantial lexemes in the terminological field “surgical instruments” suggests that scientific knowledge is based on the results of everyday knowledge.

EXCURSION AS METHOD OF TEACHING AND LANGUAGE ADAPTATION OF FOREIGN STUDENTS

The article deals with an educational excursion as a method of language and socio-cultural adaptation of foreign students. Such topical issues as development of didactic materials at diffetent levels of preparation for the excursion (pre-excursion level, during the excursion level, post-excursion level) are covered in the article.The article contains samples of texts, a system of exercises, mental maps, online-links to my own developments in the sphere of the Ukrainian language as a foreign language. There have been submitted samples of phrases necessary for study and application of them first in a playful way in the classroom and then in real life. Ivan Puluj Museum -Room in the Ternopil Ivan Puluj national technical university has become a place of special interest. A level method, personality-oriented method, descriptive methods as well as methods of analysis and systematization are leading. Theoretical and practical developments of Hanna Shvets, Nina Stankevych, Oksana Horda, Olha Rusnak, Sophia Sokolova and others have served as a methodological basis. The article presents the experience of preparation, conducting and discussing of the educational excursion within the curriculum. The emphasis is made on thorough development of educational materials, step-by-step increase in complexity of the class work. There have been highlighted a number of components that should be paid attention to while preparing for the excursion. It is emphasized on the importance of mastering common and special vocabulary, scripts, multiple viewing/listening to video or audio materials, since such skills give confidence to students during communication and perception of the information related to the professional sphere, encourage a lively discussion of the topic, relieve the emotional tension. Special «keys» have been submitted, which will help connect vocabulary and grammar with real life. The attention is focused on the fact that educational excursions help not only adapt to the language, train the skills of speaking, but also to plunge into the historical and cultural context, draw parallels with the present. Various variants of educational excursions have been modeled too: teacher - student, teacher - guide - student, student - student etc. It has been concluded about the importance of educational excursions, the necessity to tell the students about prominent personalities, to reveal the worldwide scale of Ivan Puluj’s research, to establish intercultural interaction. Key words: Ukrainian as a foreign language, excursion, adaptation, Ivan Puluj Museum, educational process, audition.