Pavlenko O. Methods of propaedeutic teaching of the Ukrainian language to foreign students in higher educational establishments

The thesis is dedicated to the problem of propaedeutic teaching of the Ukrainian language to foreign students in higher educational establishments. The thesis is the first to define the essence and provide scientific substantiation of the phenomenon “propaedeutic teaching of the Ukrainian language to foreign students in higher educational establishments” as an initial stage of continuous higher education of foreigners, which consists in the formation of the Ukrainian-language competence of foreign students, enabling them to solve their communicative needs in various areas of communication: educational and professional, social and cultural, and everyday ones, it also provides the development of a harmonious personality capable of an intercultural dialogue in the Ukrainian language. The criteria of the formation of the Ukrainian language communicative competence of foreign students (lexical and grammatical, perceptive and functional, content and functional, and interactional and functional) and corresponding indicators within each criterion, levels of formation of the Ukrainian language communicative competence of foreign students (excellent, sufficient satisfactory, low) were determined and characterized; pedagogical conditions of propaedeutic teaching of the Ukrainian language to foreign students in higher educational establishments were defined and substantiated (functional and pragmatic orientation of speech intentions (speech actions, strategies and tactics) in the propaedeutic teaching of the Ukrainian language to foreign students; introduction of information and communication technologies into the process of propaedeutic teaching of the Ukrainian language to foreign students; ensuring optimal pedagogical communication in the Ukrainian language in the interactions “a teacher – a foreign student”, “a foreign student – a foreign student”; consideration of national and psychological characteristics of foreign students in the process of propaedeutic teaching of the Ukrainian language). Based on the theoretical research and results of the diagnostic stage of the experiment, the model and the experimental methods of propaedeutic teaching of the Ukrainian language to foreign students in higher educational establishments that foresees performance of purposeful staged work (introductory, basic, and medial stages) with the complex introduction of distinguished pedagogical conditions at each stage of experimental educational process were developed and approved.