WORKING ON COMPLEX SENTENCES DURING UKRAINIAN LANGUAGE CLASSES FOR PROFESSIONAL PURPOSES AS A COMPONENT OF THE PROCESS OF FORMING STUDENTS' PUNCTUATION COMPETENCE

Abstract

During Ukrainian language classes for professional purposes, the teacher's main attention is focused on the task of developing students' communicative competence, in particular, language and speech as its components. Modern innovative approaches are focused on the formation of practical skills and abilities in students, in particular, spelling. The article analyzes the problem of improving students' punctuation competence in practical classes for professional purposes in the process of working on complex sentences and proposes a set of exercises aimed at updating students' abilities to distinguish between simple and complex sentences and to correctly use punctuation marks in complex sentences. It is noted that in the process of language education of higher education students, more attention is paid to the formation of spelling skills and abilities in them, while the formation of students' punctuation competence may remain outside the teacher's attention. Thus, higher education seekers cannot always explain the choice of punctuation marks and justify their use, give an appropriate rule, explain the structure and determine the type of sentence, as well as the elements that complicate it, thereby justify the use of punctuation marks due to the complexity of linguistic phenomena of syntax and insufficient attention to this aspect of work at school and higher education institutions. At the same time, when writing term and diploma papers, articles, creative works, higher education students try to use sentences of various meanings, including complex ones, but are not always sure which punctuation marks to use. The purpose of the article is to consider the main issues of working on complex sentences as a means of forming punctuation competence of higher education students in the process of conducting practical classes in the Ukrainian language for professional purposes, which is especially relevant for modern methods in the context of improving the language and speech competence of bachelors. The exercises for observing language phenomena, analyzing syntactic units, and improving students' skills in the correct use of complex sentences are described in detail. The results obtained are briefly summarized, and it is recommended to introduce analytical, constructive, and creative exercises into the educational process in Ukrainian language classes for professional purposes. Prospects for further research in the outlined area are also identified. The materials of the article can be used to improve the methods of teaching the Ukrainian language for professional purposes as a component of training future bachelors of various profiles.