INTENSIVE COURSE OF UKRAINIAN LANGUAGE AS A FOREIGN ONE: TRADITIONAL AND NOVEL METHODS OF TEACHING

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the problematics of teaching Ukrainian as a foreign language to Czech-speaking students in intensive courses, created on the basis of the Faculty of Philosophy of Charles University in Prague. With the onset of the full-scale phase of the Russian-Ukrainian war in various European countries, courses in Ukrainian language are actively being created for those interested. Interest in such courses primarily arises among volunteers working with Ukrainian refugees and educators working with Ukrainian children.
Similar courses are designed for a small number of hours and aim to prepare foreigners for conversational communication in Ukrainian in the shortest possible time.
Therefore, instructors working on such intensive courses must find optimal teaching methods that will enable foreigners to learn Ukrainian as quickly as possible.
Article objective: The objective of this article is to highlight the results of the search for new methods of teaching Ukrainian as a foreign language in intensive courses for Czech-speaking students.
Methodology: The following methods were used during the preparation of the article: analysis of methodological and scientific literature, systematization of personal experience in teaching Ukrainian as a foreign language, classification of typical mistakes made by Czechspeaking students when learning Ukrainian, systematization of teaching methods used, generalization, and conclusions.
Scientific novelty: The scientific novelty of the presented research lies in the synthesis of traditional teaching methods of Ukrainian as a foreign language with new methods. Such practice enables the rapid acquisition of Ukrainian oral communication skills. The research results can be further used in classes of Ukrainian as a foreign language.
Conclusions: Teaching Ukrainian on intensive courses for Czech-speaking students involves an interdisciplinary approach, consideration of students' interests and reasons for their interest in the Ukrainian language, maximum focus on the development of communicative skills, an approach to grammar as a mandatory but auxiliary tool, combining grammatical, local history, and cultural material with specific lexical themes, and active use of audio and video materials.