HISTORICAL-LINGUISTIC COMPONENT OF UKRAINIAN TEXTBOOKS CONTENT FOR HIGH SCHOOL

Abstract

The article proves the necessity of introducing into the Ukrainian language textbooks the aspects of the origin of the national language and educational material on the formation and development of the Ukrainian literary language in order to form historical memory - the foundation of national identity - of high school students. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of the concepts of studying the Ukrainian language at school (from 1993), concepts that became the coordinates for creating the Ukrainian language textbooks that formed spelling, orphoepic, lexical, grammatical, stylistic, communicative competencies, but did not raise culture of historical memory, did not fully contribute to the formation of the national identity of the younger generation of Ukrainians. The article attracts the attention of the authors of modern Ukrainian language textbooks for high school to the important issues of the history of the Ukrainian language, as today there is a necessity to form (in the aspect of socio-cultural competence) knowledge about the natural independent development of the Ukrainian language out of the Slavonic language within the Slavic language family. The introduction in the textbooks for high school the chronology and the periodization of the development of the Ukrainian language by Yuri Sheveliov is offered. It seems expedient to clarify in the Ukrainian language textbooks the old Ukrainian period in the development of the Ukrainian literary language. The idea is upheld to examine prominent personalities in the history of the Ukrainian literary language (Hryhoriy Skovoroda, Ivan Kotliarevskyi, Taras Shevchenko) through text-based learning.