Deviant Forms of Adjectives in Modern Ukrainian Language: Teaching Features in the Structure of the Ukrainian Course as a Foreign Language

Abstract

Perfect language skills are an integral part of the professional training of modern specialists in various specialties, since the full manifestation of an individual's professional talents occurs through language tools. Skillfully mastering language tools, a future specialist can realize him/herself both professionally and in various life roles, solve problem situations in interpersonal communication, and ensure effective interaction in a team. Language is a means of self-expression and self-affirmation and teaching foreign students to master various linguistic means by introducing modern technologies in language learning and understanding numerous grammatical structures and features of the Ukrainian language. The authors consider the features of studying atypical forms of adjectives in the structure of the Ukrainian language course as a foreign language in view of the modern communicative conditionality of language and the emotional and evaluative marking of language units of different levels, primarily adjectives of the Ukrainian language. Deviant forms of adjectives are presented through consideration of semantic and grammatical features of adjectives of the Ukrainian language, analyzed from the point of view of pragmatics. The chapter provides examples of problematic situations in the study of atypical forms of the Ukrainian adjective by foreign students and comments on the peculiarities of studying the Ukrainian adjective in the structure of the course of Ukrainian as a foreign language.