Комунікативи як засіб формування соціокультурної та комунікативної компетентності іноземних студентів / Communicatives as a means of forming sociocultural and communicative competence of foreign students

The article analyzes the scientific and theoretical foundations for studying the problem of developing sociocultural and communicative competencies in foreign students at the initial stage of learning based on such linguistic and cultural units as communicatives. The purpose of the study is to identify current trends in teaching Ukrainian as a foreign language and to create an algorithm for involving communicatives in the teaching process. The following research methods were used: descriptive, linguistic analysis (semantic, syntactic, pragmatic), observation, experimentation, anonymous questioning and modeling of learning situations. The study reveals the concept of communicatives, analyzes their structural and semantic features, functions, types, and sociocultural nature; provides an analysis of the state of scientific and methodological literature, and highlights the insufficient development of methods for using communicatives in Ukrainian language courses. The results of a survey of Ukrainian students are presented and analyzed, and conclusions are drawn that communicatives are actively used in the modern language; therefore, mastering them contributes to the students’ psychological comfort. Methods of teaching Ukrainian for better knowledge assimilation at the initial stage of learning are considered; various types of tasks are analyzed; materials for coherent speech are devised to form phonetic, lexical, grammatical, sociocultural, and communicative competences. Prospects for further research are proposed, consisting of continuing research into such a small genre as communicatives, creating minimum vocabularies of communicatives of the modern Ukrainian language, and teaching aids for the initial stage of teaching Ukrainian as a foreign language using communicatives.