Developing Communicative Competence of Future Teachers on the Basis of Ethnic and Cultural Values Intrinsic to Highlanders of the Ukrainian Carpathians

Authors

  • Maria Stakhiv

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15330/jpnu.1.2-3.240-244

Keywords:

ethnic regions, linguistic community, communicative competence

Abstract

The article presents challenges and methods of teacher training activities aimed to
develop communicative competence and prepare teachers for work in mountain area schools in the
Ukrainian Carpathians. Research shows that specifics of social and cultural environment should be
taken into account in the process of teaching native language and developing communicative
competence of future teachers. Sociocultural approach defines language teaching strategies in the
light of national culture, traditions of ethnic regions and the Ukrainian Carpathians in particular.
Teacher training programs should include studies on material, cultural and spiritual values of
highlanders. Such topics can be incorporated in the main native language course. Study and
analysis of fiction pieces, especially those that reflect the socio-cultural peculiarities of linguistic
community of the Ukrainian Carpathians can be of great value in achieving the goal. Small classes
in mountain schools also place a demand upon educators to constantly upgrade approaches, forms
and methods of teaching.
The article offers an integral teacher training system aimed at developing communicative
competence and preparing teachers to work in the mountain areas schools. A special place in this
system is given to folk pedagogy, which accumulates the national and regional spiritual values.
The author presents the components of communicative and socio-cultural competence of future
teachers. The suggested algorithm for training primary school teachers insures reaching an
appropriate level of socio-cultural, historical, linguistic and communicative competencies
necessary for language teaching at primary schools in mountain regions of the Ukrainian
Carpathians.

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Published

2014-12-22

How to Cite

[1]
Stakhiv, M. 2014. Developing Communicative Competence of Future Teachers on the Basis of Ethnic and Cultural Values Intrinsic to Highlanders of the Ukrainian Carpathians. Journal of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University. 1, 2-3 (Dec. 2014), 240–244. DOI:https://doi.org/10.15330/jpnu.1.2-3.240-244.

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