Lingua-Didactic and Competence-Oriented Principles of Studying Category of Mood in HEI (Higher Educational Institutions) and GSEI (General Secondary Education Institutions)

Abstract

The article provides
methodological recommendations for the study of the category of mood in higher
educational institutions and general secondary education institutions; offers a number
of guidelines that will help improve the content and methods of mastering the
category of mood in the context of competence-oriented studying of studentsphilologists; identifies productive means of improving students achievement while
mastering the category of mood; indicative practical tasks aimed at mastering the
skills and abilities of students and acquiring a number of competencies specified in the “State Standard of Basic Secondary Education”. It is emphasized that the students
should fully master the material on the category of mood, acquire morphological
competence, learn how to use the acquired knowledge in practice, so that in the future
they will be able to present information to students. To ensure this, a thorough and
step-by-step study of verb features and a system of various tasks is conducted and
these tasks aim at developing skills and abilities to apply the theory in various
communicative situations, the development of intellectual-cognitive and
professionally oriented abilities of students pursuing a bachelor's degree.
The article focuses on the several stages of mastering the category of mood in
the school course of the Ukrainian language, which provides: 1) acquaintance
of students with theoretical material about the category of mood, repeating of the
features of personal-numerical paradigm of indicative (in present and future tenses)
mood and clarification of the specifics of personal paradigm of imperative forms with
an emphasis on the presence of parallel means of expression of the same grammatical
meanings; 2) teaching students to apply the acquired knowledge in practice, the
reproductive tasks that children perform using the pattern, constructive exercises that
require knowledge and skills in a slightly modified form, creative tasks; 3) final
survey and exercises of different complexity, designed to be completed at home.
Such a sequence of studying will allow to acquire the necessary knowledge, skills
and abilities and will promote the implementation of competence-oriented learning.