Development of communicative competence in the Ukrainian language 3222-50KKKJU1C-NZ

Classes are conducted in Ukrainian, Polish is used only auxiliary, and include lexical and grammatical exercises. The content of teaching is subordinated to the assumption of opening up to the cognitive and communicative needs of students. The aim of the classes is to develop the following language competences:
- listening to texts, recordings, TV and radio programmes and oral statements by native speakers of Ukrainian, as well as
performing oral exercises (conversations on various topics - more complex utterances), and through this practising and improving pronunciation;
- learning vocabulary related to different areas of student's life and more broadly to the human being in society, reading information about the country: news from the press, the Internet (advertisements, commercials, directories, letters, timetables);
- developing the ability to write independent statements in Ukrainian by writing texts of varying difficulty, e.g. essays, dissertations, and consolidating correct spelling (orthography) through short dictations;
- emphasis on the development of speaking skills - describing current events and one's own experiences, explaining plans, intentions, reasons, views and expressing opinions, active participation in discussions, presentation of material from different areas of society.
Exercises are devoted in detail to the development of communicative competence - during each class a topic is presented and the student has the opportunity to get acquainted with the lexical resources related to the topic, constructions allowing for free discussion of the topic in general and in detail, expressing one's position - arguments for and against, justifying one's opinion, views.
Texts used in class include excerpts from the press, literary texts, tourist brochures, texts available on the Internet, films and recordings of radio and TV programmes. Didactic texts are selected with a view to achieving specific effects on language learning, supplemented by tasks and exercises; listening to recordings with comprehension questions and short grammar exercises; using learned words and phrases in independent written and oral statements.
Innovative methods, techniques and didactic means used in classes:
- use of audiovisual and multimedia materials - music videos, films, music recordings, radio programmes, films
commercials, listening to contemporary songs, carols and fairy tales; watching films without subtitles;
- using Internet resources - reading daily newspapers, searching for information,
- introducing students to the culture and history of Ukraine, describing major cities and tourist attractions, looking at photos;
- using props from Ukraine in class, necessary to approximate hypothetical communication situations in which the students may find themselves in the country of the taught language.
In addition, the aim of the course is to train listening, speaking, reading, writing skills and to acquire and extend the students' linguistic competence in:
1. general understanding of written and spoken texts of varying levels of difficulty;
3. expressing content learned in class in textual or aural form, in grammatically correct oral and written expression
(complex) speech;
4. express their own opinions using the lexical resources and knowledge acquired in class;
5. to communicate in typical social situations; to understand relationships in the process of human communication; to be able to react in real life situations;
6. conversation on topics taken from everyday life and in everyday situations, as well as the ability to prepare statements on more difficult topics (active participation in discussions, debates, etc.);
Knowledge of grammar rules provides: the ability to construct grammatically correct sentences; the ability to solve grammar and grammar-lexical exercises correctly;
The subject ends with an examination.
Student workload:
contact hours in the classroom - 105 hrs.
preparation for classes - 20
exam preparation - 25
Total: 150 hrs (5 ECTS)

If it is not possible to conduct classes in a stationary form, classes will be held using distance communication tools, most likely ZOOM, CLASSROOM and others recommended by the University of Warsaw.