FORMATION OF CHINESE STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIVE AND RECEPTIVE SKILLS DURING THE UKRAINIAN LANGUAGE TEACHING

The article deals with the need to form the perceptive and receptive basis skills during the Ukrainian language teaching of foreign students at the ABC stage, since these skills are the foundation for the development of all types of speech activity. The authors have analyzed some problems faced by both Chinese students and teachers of Ukrainian as a foreign language, including those related to the perception peculiarity of the Ukrainian language by the Chinese students. In order to understand the causes of difficulties for students from China during the learning of the Ukrainian language, some differences between the Ukrainian and Chinese languages related to their origin, sound system, and writing have been considered. Special attention is focused on the differences observed in the phonetics of the two languages, in particular in the system of vowel and consonant sounds and the structure of syllables, because differences in the writing system and syllable structure, as well as the presence or absence of certain sounds in the languages are the cause of those difficulties and mistakes, which Chinese students can have while they are perceiving and pronouncing the Ukrainian sounds. In this article some most common pronunciation and accent mistakes in the Chinese students’ speech are analyzed, the causes of these mistakes are indicated, and also some ways to prevent their occurrence are offered: explaining the difference in the formation of problem sounds, using auxiliary sounds, fixing speech units in the written form, which contributes to the consolidation in the students’ memory of formed listening and pronunciation skills and the creation of sound-letter correspondences. The authors have proved the extreme importance of teaching foreigners who study the Ukrainian language the phonetic aspect of speech, because not only the success of learning the material and the psychological comfort of studying in a group with Ukrainian-speaking students depends on how well-formed auditory and speaking abilities and skills are, but also in general the quality of the acquired education. Key words: perceptive and receptive skills, types of speech activity, phonetics of the Ukrainian and Chinese languages, system of vowel and consonant sounds, structure of syllables, speech mistakes.