TEACHING THE UKRAINIAN LANGUAGE IN THE MODERN COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL: A FUNCTIONAL ASPECT

Abstract

The author considers the problem of the functions of the knowledge and the skills in the Ukrainian language, students’ functional literacy, studies these problems and suggests the way to solve them. Taking into consideration the new challenges of modern education an urgent need for making the programs easier in the aspect of their functions, vital relevance, and correspondence to the public inquiries appeared. According to the author, one of the principles of the semantic component adjustment of programs of the Ukrainian language for the secondary school should be taking into account the social language functions. The expressiveness of the appropriateness of the content of each chapter and topic for life, their personification will automatically motivate the pupils, stimulate the pupil’s self-realization and self-determination in the modern society. The analysis of the linguistic works shows that the scholars’ efforts are directed at the solution of such topical problems as communicativeness of all units and categories of the language system, person’s presentation in the communication process, the socially oriented communication, communicative strategies, types of language impact, the speech genres peculiarities, texts types. The researches that were conducted by the Laboratory of Ukrainian Language Teaching (the Ukrainian Language and Literature Teaching Department since January, 2015) of the Institute of Pedagogy of the NAES of Ukraine proved the low level of pupils’ motivation in learning the Ukrainian Language as well as their non-understanding of the practical efficiency of the subject knowledge and skills. Correspondingly, the knowledge component of the school subject must be reviewed in consideration with the tasks and the areas of human activity. The coordination of the curriculum content component with the language functions in society is significant because of the opportunity to find the gaps and the information surplus. Taking into account the language functional peculiarities will promote the submission of the content component to the personality-oriented, activity- and competence-based approaches, making programs easier, assuring the high language position in society as well as upbringing a competent, nationally-conscious linguist who has his/her own literal taste, literal sense, a person who understands the responsibility for the spoken word and the language fate.