Військова лексика в курсі української мови як іноземної / Military vocabulary in Ukrainian as a foreign language classes

In their article, lecturers from the Department of Ukrainian Philology for Foreign Citizens at the Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv analyzed certain aspects of teaching military vocabulary in Ukrainian as a foreign language courses. Currently, there is a high demand for such courses in Ukraine, as foreign citizens serve in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Associate Professor Svitlana Derba and Assistant Professor Oleksandra Kasianova reviewed contemporary sources for studying military vocabulary in Ukrainian as a foreign language classes and proposed teaching materials for its study. Currently, linguists understand a military term to be a special name that has a simple or complex formal structure (phrase) corresponding to a specific concept in the field of military affairs (military science, technology, military life, etc.). Types of military vocabulary include words and phrases that do not belong to the literary language, are used mainly in the oral speech of the military, and form various socio-functional classes of words consisting of lexical units that are heterogeneous in their functional characteristics. The authors provide a classification of military vocabulary in the Ukrainian language (nominal units denoting various types of troops, the staff sphere, general tactical and organizational actions, etc.). All units (201 in total) from the list of necessary vocabulary for military personnel (provided by active military personnel) were classified according to parts of speech and lexical-semantic groups. For example, nouns (soldier, commander, officer; shelling, room, tree, building, interval, contact; north, south, west, east; parts of the body, weapons), pronouns and their use (follow me, with me), verbs (work, run, stop, put, load, unload, hold, etc.), adverbs (often, more often, straight), numerals. Furthermore, it is assumed that working on the acquisition of this lexical material requires the teacher to combine methods and techniques for teaching Ukrainian as a foreign language. The main type of educational activity is oral speech activity. The work provides examples of tasks that can be performed in order to master military vocabulary.