Шлях стандартизації навчання української мови як іноземної
Authors:   Навчально-науковий інститут міжнародної освіти Харківського національного університету імені В. Н. Каразіна, Кушнір Ірина 
Published: March 2023

The article lights the process of standardization of requirements for the levels of proficiency in Ukrainian as a foreign language and the stages of creating standard requirements and pedagogical conditions for the implementation of the system of language training of educational migrants in Ukraine. Educational services of Ukrainian educational institutions are in demand in the international educational market and receive high ratings. According to the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine data 75 500 educational migrants were registered in 2021. In this regard, an important component of the general education of foreigners is their language training, focused on mastering the required level of Ukrainian for a certain stage of education in an educational institution. Therefore, language standards and language education standards are mandatory for Ukraine as a subject of the European educational space. Ukraine has already achieved a certain victory on the difficult path of language standardization and language education standardization and in 2021 the system of State testing and issuance of state certificates on the level of proficiency in the Ukrainian language was launched. Obstacles in this direction were associated with the constant delay in the drafting and adoption of the Law on the State Language, which was adopted only 28 years after the establishment of sovereignty – in 2019, and only in 2020 created the National Commission on State Language Standards. According to the author’s observations, the system of teaching the state language to educational migrants is built in accordance with two standards: language and language education. Language education is considered as one of the subsystems of the field of education, in which language and education appear as complex systemic tools for socializing the student’s personality. Language training involves the unity of three components: language (when the goal and result is the formation of communicative competence); educational-scientific and educational- professional (formation of professional-communicative competence) and adaptive (formation of socio-cultural competence). The article provides a retrospective review and systematizes the chronology of the creation of state standards of the Ukrainian as a foreign language training system for different contingents of educational migrants of Ukrainian educational institutions. The correlation of the stages of language education with the levels of proficiency in Ukrainian as a foreign language is also presented. Standardized descriptors-indicators of Ukrainian as a foreign language proficiency levels are given and structural elements of the future language education standard, which has not yet been approved at the state level, are proposed. The author also emphasizes the problems related to the lack of a language education standard, which can directly affect the quality of language training of many educational migrants in Ukrainian educational institutions.