LINGUO-DIDACTIC FEATURES OF STUDYING PRONOUNS IN THE COURSE OF UKRAINIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

In the course of practical grammar of Ukrainian as a foreign language, a pronoun takes a special place in view of its specific meaning, morphological features, syntactic functions and stylistic properties. The substitutive and indicative function makes the pronoun multifaceted, heterogeneous and extremely difficult to master for foreigners. There is a lack of research related to the description of lexical-semantic features, stylistic properties and grammatical features of pronouns in Ukrainian linguistic didactics. For the purpose of teaching grammar of Ukrainian as a foreign language, a multifaceted analysis of pronouns is essential, which has to take into account their features at different levels simultaneously, namely morphological, syntactic, lexical, and stylistic ones. The study of Ukrainian pronouns also requires the research of their conjugation, the possibility of transition to other parts of the language and functioning in fixed language collocations. Pronouns in the course of Ukrainian as a foreign language are distinguished by a functional feature - the ability to be used instead of a noun, adjective or numeral. Pronouns combined within a separate independent meaningful part are substitute words with a special anaphoric function, which makes them a universal means of text creation. For a foreign listener, it is extremely important to learn the peculiarities of the semantics and functions of pronouns of different categories, in particular personal, reflexive, possessive, indicative, interrogative, relative, negative, and indefinite ones. Penetration into the semantic structure of pronouns of various lexical and grammatical categories, identifying the peculiarities of grammatical features and conjugation makes it possible to identify the most important properties of pronouns of the Ukrainian language for studying in a classroom, to draw up a system of exercises for the development of abilities and skills of their correct use in speech. Key words: pronoun, linguistic didactic features of study, Ukrainian as a foreign language, classes of pronouns, exercise, stable expressions.