The Criterion and Level Aspect of the Experimental Research into the Effectiveness of the Methodical System of Teaching Ukrainian Language for Professional Purposes

Abstract

The article analyzes the criterion and level aspect of the experimental research into the effectiveness of the methodical system of teaching Ukrainian Language for Professional Purposes. The tasks have been performed in the context of teaching the academic discipline to students of specialties 012 Preschool Education and 013 Primary Education. The terminological base of the study has been formed based on interpretation of the concepts: “criterion,” “indicator,” “level,” and “competence paradigm”. In accordance with the research aim, the criteria for assessing the formation of students’ professional competences have been substantiated. The cognitive and motivational criterion is singled out to illustrate the formation of the knowledge, professional and motivational components of students’ training, which include the system of content-based interdisciplinary connections in the theoretical unit of the academic discipline Ukrainian Language for Professional Purposes. The operation and activity-based criterion has been introduced to determine the level of formation of students’ abilities and skills to operate the acquired knowledge in practice, create secondary texts using samples and auxiliary means (dictionaries, schemes, spelling, etc.), and act according to an algorithm. The professional and creative criterion illustrates the ability of future specialists in pedagogy for productive and creative application of acquired abilities and skills in changeable conditions and independent activity at the analytical and synthetic level. The developed criteria are the main parameters for determining the level of formation of the predicted ability of students at higher education institutions for practical professional and pedagogical activity. According to each criterion, the indicators of formation of students’ professional competences have been determined: discursive, documentary, general scientific, information technology, entrepreneurial, editorial, and terminological. Based on the criteria and their indicators, three levels of formation of the studied ability have been established, and the selection of their nominations has been substantiated: sufficient, satisfactory, and initial. The materials provided in the article are a part of the experimental research shown in the author's doctoral dissertation: Humeniuk I. M. “Methodical System of Teaching Ukrainian Language for Professional Purposes to Students at Pedagogical Institutions of Higher Education”, 13.00.02 “Theory and Methods of Teaching (Ukrainian language)”, 2023.