Linguo-cultural horizons of onyms and poetonyms in teaching Ukrainian as a foreign language

Abstract

The article is devoted to the description and analysis of the pedagogical and didactic potential of educational materials containing onyms and poetonyms in the practice of teaching Ukrainian as a foreign language. The purpose of the study is to raise the issue of introducing the necessary onyms to the materials; to outline the foreign communicants’ notion formation factors about the actual onomastic space of the modern Ukrainian language; to determine the factors of influence of the information encoded in the onymic layer of the vocabulary on the formation of a secondary linguistic personality. The study focuses on the contexts with proprial units used by students learning Ukrainian as a foreign language at levels A1–C1. The main research methods employed are the descriptive method, scientific and pedagogical observation and generalization of the positive work experience. Assimilation of knowledge by foreign students and mastering skills in the use of proper names enriches applicants with information about the Ukrainian national specifics, contributes to their acquisition of linguistic competence in the communication process and the formation of a secondary language personality.