TECHNOLOGY OF TEACHING UKRAINIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE IN UKRAINIAN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

The purpose of this article is to find an effective technology for teaching Ukrainian as a foreign language. We realize it through the implementation of specific tasks, in particular: we determine modern trends in methods of teaching Ukrainian as a foreign language; we define the basic conditions, approaches, optimal methods, techniques and means of Ukrainian language teaching to foreign students, which together form the technology; we develop tentative tasks that contribute to the formation of foreign students’ cultural and communicative competence. In the research process we apply a number of theoretical (analysis, synthesis and available information generalization) and empirical methods (own observations of the educational process). As a result of our work the complex of optimal conditions, the basic approaches, principles, methods, techniques and means of learning Ukrainian as a foreign language is formed. We conclude that our proposed technology of teaching Ukrainian as a foreign language in Higher Education Institutions has the following components: appropriate learning environment (favorable informational and educational environment and psychological climate in the team; a high corporate culture of all participants of the educational process; teacher competence; resource base of Higher Education Institution; curriculum). Efficient approaches (competency-based; communicative-active; person-oriented; culture-oriented; practice-oriented; multimedia-based) and their implementation principles. Methods (language observation, exercise method, discussion method, situational-role play method, project method). Learning techniques (lexemes semantization; language and communicative phenomena observation; language and speech phenomena analysis; comparison; logical reasoning; analogy building / playback; imitation and others). Learning tools (printed educational literature; graphic and technical tools, and so on). In addition, we offer tentative tasks aimed at forming the Ukrainian language communicative competence of a foreign student