CULTURAL TEXTBOOK LIGUODIDACTIC POTENTIAL OF THE UKRAINIAN AS THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE

the local Ukrainian culture and history. The question of the need for a linguistics textbook with Ukrainian culture presentation in a broad national context was raised. In this regard, the International Institute of Education, Culture and Diaspora Relations Lviv Polytechnic National University contribution in the Ukrainian as a foreign language creation of linguistic and cultural educational materials, which present the all national culture, was marked. The textbooks linguodidactic potential analysis in particular country studies relevance for the improvement and development of their creation methods is substantiated. The country study material presented in the textbook of Ukrainian as a foreign language (UMI) "The Key to Ukraine: Cities and People" is analyzed. The this material presentation conceptual scheme in the textbook and its structure are briefly described. In particular, the texts’ content and volume, illustrative material, pre-text dictionary, a linguodidactic exercises set are analyzed. The exercises’ typology in this textbook is determined, among which are exercises of lexical, grammatical, semantic and communicative orientation. The study established the exercises in the country studies textbook use with role situations and plot modeling, exercises with meanings identification, establishing correspondence between the text and other statements content, exercises with lexical units grouping, construction different volume speech units - from phrases to dialogues and texts, its reformulation, as well as exercises with statements or individual words explanations. The semantic content of the linguodidactic exercises complex is analyzed, the methods used in them and their didactic value are generalized. In the process of linguodidactic analysis of exercises the pre-text and post-text peculiarities are established, their comparison by typology, lexical content and didactic methods is made, the connections between exercises, their sequence and methodical expediency are determined.