TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION THE PECULIARITIES OF THE HEBREW VOCABULARY IN THE SELECTION OF THE LEXICAL MATERIAL FOR THE FORMATION OF THE PUPILS’ LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL COMPETENCE

Abstract

In teaching Hebrew (as the second or the foreign language), the problem of the formation of the linguistic and cultural competence as a part of the social and cultural competence of students is new and undeveloped. However, the content of language teaching from the aspect of the linguistic and cultural paradigm has to be already laid in the first steps of learning. Taking into account the fact that students do not speak Hebrew at the beginning of the study and the lack of linguistic and cultural environment of the process of learning the Hebrew language, the national and cultural aspect, in particularly, is the most difficult for students to comprehend the culture of the Jewish who are the members of the Ukrainian community as well as the Jewish children for whom Hebrew is their native language. As the national and the cultural features are reflected at all language levels and the levels of the text (at the level of content, language and speech means of expression, at the level of subtext), they must be considered in the selection of training content. The linguistic and cultural features of a language mainly take place at the lexical level. That is the reason why the purpose of this article is to study the characteristics of Hebrew vocabulary for the further consideration in teaching methodology, particularly, in the formation of the linguistic and cultural competence of students. The article analyzes the various categories of modern Hebrew language vocabulary, which will contribute to the scientific specification of the selection of training content, including the formation of the linguistic and cultural competence of students. The analysis on the Hebrew vocabulary, especially the interlingual borrowings from Ukrainian and Russian, conducted by us, should be the basis for the selection of the Hebrew vocabulary to form language, speech and sociocultural competence of students, in particularly, their linguistic and cultural as well as intercultural competences. The further research prospects are considered in the in-depth theoretical and methodological development of the problems of implementation of the linguistic and cultural approach to teaching Hebrew as well as other language courses implemented in the education system of Ukraine.