It is posted on the website of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine draft of the State Standard on the Ukrainian language as a foreign language.
This document contains Ukraine's requirements for the level of proficiency in the Ukrainian language of persons for whom it is not their native (first) language.
The State Standard unifies the system of requirements for mastering the Ukrainian language and contains a clear list of communicative abilities and skills at each level (from A1 to C2, in accordance with the All-European Recommendations on language education) for all types of speech activity (listening, reading, writing, speaking).
The document was developed with the aim of a unified approach to the development of new educational programs, the creation of modern textbooks on the Ukrainian language as a foreign language, the preparation of dictionaries, the opening of Ukrainian language programs and language centers.
This is due, in particular, to the fact that the number of exchange programs between Ukrainian and foreign universities increases every year within the framework of the Bologna Process, which Ukraine joined in 2005. As a result, the number of foreign students who want to learn the Ukrainian language is increasing. At the same time, the number of academic centers is increasing (for example, Cambridge University, Humboldt University of Berlin, Ukrainian Institute in London, etc.) that allow foreigners to study the Ukrainian language.
The development of unified state requirements for the level of proficiency in the Ukrainian language as a foreign language (Standard) can become the basis for organizing and conducting a certification exam (Diagnosis) and the basis for the introduction of a single model document (Certificate) that will certify the level of proficiency in the Ukrainian language.
The authors of the project of the State Standard on the Ukrainian language as a foreign language are:
– Danuta Mazuryk (Lviv Ivan Franko National University)
– Oleksandra Antoniv (Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, NGO "Center of Ukrainian Studies")
– Olena Synchak (Ukrainian Catholic University)
– Halyna Boyko (Lviv Polytechnic National University, MIOK)
Please send suggestions and comments to the draft standard by May 24, 2018 to the following e-mail address: l_shchitka@mon.gov.ua.
