ПІДГОТОВКА ВИКЛАДАЧІВ УКРАЇНСЬКОЇ МОВИ ЯК ІНОЗЕМНОЇВ ІНСТИТУТІ ФІЛОЛОГІЇ КИЇВСЬКОГО НАЦІОНАЛЬНОГО УНІВЕРСИТЕТУ ІМЕНІ ТАРАСА ШЕВЧЕНКА

The need to optimize the system of training of teachers of Ukrainian as a foreign language and more active its implementation in Ukrainian universities is caused by inconsistency between the social order and the practice of its realization, as evidenced by pressing demand for the specialists, who are competent in teaching the Ukrainian language to foreign students and pupils of schools with languages of national minorities. The article gives the characteristic of the complex of elective subjects in the educational plans of training of the bachelors-philologists, specialists and masters in the speciality «The Ukrainian language and literature» (specialization «Ukrainian as a foreign language»). It generalizes the experience and achievements of the Department of Ukrainian and Russian as foreign languages of the Institute of Philology of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. The article characterizes knowledge and skills that form the basis of professional competence of the teacher of Ukrainian as a foreign language. Training of bachelors of this specialization is directed on formation of students’ basic knowledge and practical skills in the methodology of teaching Ukrainian as a foreign language: the principles and the content of training, the system of work on formation and development of the skills of reading, listening, speaking and writing, functional approach to the study of linguistic phenomena, etc. The curriculum of the specialists, designed for ten months, contains two courses aimed at deepening of students’ general philological and specialized practical knowledge. The complex of disciplines in the methodology of teaching Ukrainian as a foreign language of master’s cycle is characterized by a focus on in-depth study of the linguodidactics problems and the improvement of the students’ research skills, the development of their scientific search activity and creativity. The system of training of teachers of Ukrainian as a foreign language, which was formed in the Institute of Philology of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, aimed at the formation of the specialists, capable to organize effective process of teaching the Ukrainian language in the foreign audience and conduct researches of linguistic and methodological problems of this sector of national linguodidactics.