STORYTELLING IN THE COURSE OF UKRAINIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE FOR KOREAN STUDENTS: A PRACTICAL ASPECT

Abstract

The article highlights the advantages of the Storytelling method in foreign language classes and the features of its application in global pedagogy, in particular, the creation and use of various stories that evoke appropriate emotions and affect our lives, etc. However, in the course of Ukrainian as a foreign language (hereinafter - UFL), this method is just beginning to be implemented but already has some developments. Considerable attention is paid to the issue of Storytelling, which has become one of the main disciplines at the Department of Ukrainian Studies of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, which improves students’ communication skills. The article discusses the practical aspect of Storytelling for Korean students, especially it is about the list of topics that can be offered for studying this discipline, the structure of one lesson and its main components (blocks): reading or listening to the text, questions to the text, exercises (lexical, grammatical, logical), additional information, telling your own story. Each of the blocks is analyzed in detail, the advantages and disadvantages of certain tasks are indicated, as well as the difficulties encountered by Korean students in the process of studying Storytelling. The modern embodiment of this method is also indicated – Digital Storytelling, which is actively used in foreign-language audiences nowadays. The purpose of the article is to prove that Storytelling as an educational discipline should be mandatory in education for Korean students of the Department of Ukrainian Studies, which will contribute to improving the communication skills of students and its components (linguistic, speech, sociolinguistic competences); to show in practice what material should be used in Storytelling classes and what exercises and tasks to develop for the stories read or heard. Key words: Storytelling, Ukrainian as a foreign language (UFL), method, stories, educational discipline, communication skills, Korean students.