MODELING OF UKRAINIAN LANGUAGE EDUCATIONAL CONTENT IN JOURNALIST TRAINING

Abstract

Acquiring journalistic education requires improvement of linguistic competences. The article defines the purpose and objectives of the course «Ukrainian language in journalistic practice», presents the curriculum for the discipline «Ukrainian language in journalistic practice» for students of the 1st year of the specialty 061 «Journalism», developed by the Department of Ukrainian Philology and Journalism of V. Vynnychenko State University. The article proves that the formation of professional competences among representatives of mass communications is connected to the integration of knowledge of modern Ukrainian literary language and skills of practical stylistics and culture of Ukrainian speech. The course «Ukrainian language in journalistic practice» occupies an important place in the education of future journalists. The main goal of the «Ukrainian language in journalistic practice» as an educational discipline is to update students' theoretical knowledge of all sections of the modern Ukrainian language, to develop skills in practical stylistics and culture of Ukrainian speech, to improve language and speech training of future journalists. The course program contains three content modules: phonetic and orthoepic norms of the modern Ukrainian language; lexical skill of a modern journalist; word formation and morphology; syntax: compliance with syntactic norms in the professional speech of journalists. As a result of studying the discipline, the student should know the basic theoretical apparatus of phonetics, lexicology, morphology and syntax; communicative features of speech culture; styles and norms of modern Ukrainian literary language. The student must be able to use the rich lexical and phraseological fund of the Ukrainian language; to work with dictionaries of various types, to build one's speech in compliance with the current rules of word formation, word change, established norms for building phrases and sentences.