The Department of the Ukrainian Language dates back to the fall of 1920, when permission was granted to open the departments of Jewish and Ukrainian languages at the Kherson Institute of Public Education (KhINO). Initially, it was the Department of Ukrainian and Russian Languages and Literature. Later, the teachers of Russian and Ukrainian languages and literature were divided into two different departments. At various times, the department was headed by Nechayev I.D., Nagin Y.D., Pryimak I.I., Pentiliuk M.I., Haletova A.G., Nagina V.O., Haiduchenko H.M., and today the head of the Ukrainian language department is Klymovych S.M.
The Department of the Ukrainian Language dates back to the fall of 1920, when permission was granted to open the departments of Jewish and Ukrainian languages at the Kherson Institute of Public Education (KhINO). Initially, it was the Department of Ukrainian and Russian Languages and Literature. Later, the teachers of Russian and Ukrainian languages and literature were divided into two different departments. At different times, the department was headed by Nechayev I.D., Nagin Y.D., Pryimak I.I., Pentiliuk M.I., Haletova A.G., Nagina V.O., Gaiduchenko H.M., and today the head of the Ukrainian Language Department is Klymovych S.M.
The work of the department is aimed at training scientific and pedagogical staff, improving the efficiency of the organization of the educational process, determining the general directions of scientific activity, organizing student research, and career guidance.
Realizing that the main task of the department is to train highly qualified specialists, much attention is paid to the organization of educational work. All major courses of the department are taught according to the programs developed by leading Ukrainian scientists and author's programs of the department members approved by the Academic Council of the University. They reflect the current level of development of philological science, aimed at forming a humanistic worldview and strong scientific and professional beliefs in a teacher of language. Lecture courses are taught by associate professors only. Curricula in all disciplines are constantly being improved, and their content meets the requirements of the credit-module system. To enhance the independent work of students, guidelines for completing tests by part-time and external students have been prepared and published.
Teachers of the department are actively engaged in research work, which is subordinated to the general departmental problem "Patterns of development of the Ukrainian language and practice of language activity". All members of the department, postgraduate students and applicants are involved in research on this issue. The results of the scientific research of the department's teaching staff are reflected in the materials of the All-Ukrainian Scientific Conference "Modern Guidelines of Philological Science", teaching aids and textbooks, and scientific articles. Over the past 5 years alone, 6 textbooks, 6 manuals, and more than 50 articles in professional journals have been published.
To organize students' scientific work, the department has created scientific associations of students (problem groups), which result in the preparation of term papers and graduation papers, and the writing of scientific articles. The Department has such scientific associations of students (problem groups) as:
"Actual Problems of Linguistics" (headed by Associate Professor Karabuta O.P., Associate Professor Klymovych S.M.) - studies the patterns of development of the lexical and morphological system of the Ukrainian language, finds out the lexical and semantic structure of linguistic units, stylistic features and syntactic organization of the language of writers; explores ways and means of enriching the lexical composition of the Ukrainian language, the formation of individual terminological systems, lexical and semantic processes within them, processes of determinology, etc. Observations of changes in the lexical composition of the language are made on the basis of works of various genres and lexicographic sources.
"Linguistic Stylistics of Artistic Speech" (supervisors - Assoc, Associate Professor Tikhosha V.I. ) - studies expressive and pictorial linguistic elements, their possible transformations in the context of a work of fiction; reveals the aesthetic function of linguistic material in a particular artistic system, in its relations with other elements of this system; studies expressive linguistic means in the author's speech and the speech of characters, reveals the genre features of the language of individual works of fiction; studies the syntactic structures of a literary text, the syntactic organization of the language of contemporary writers, the functions and stylistic features of syntactic units in a literary text.
"Sociolinguistic Aspect of Language Research" (Head - Associate Professor S.A. Martos) - explores the relationship between social and linguistic processes; characterizes the key concepts of sociolinguistics; classifies social varieties of language; determines the causes of emergence, functioning and peculiarities of the spread of non-standard vocabulary in the speech of a certain social stratum; analyzes the linguistic situation in a certain environment; observes and predicts the goals and objectives of language policy.
The department's teachers engage gifted schoolchildren in their research work. Associate Professors Tikhosha V.I., Haiduchenko H.M., Klymovych S.M. supervise the scientific work of the Junior Academy of Sciences. Associate Professor Karabuta O.P. conducts special training seminars for the Petro Yatsyk International Ukrainian Language Competition.
For career guidance purposes, the department participates in the work of methodological associations of Ukrainian language teachers in schools of Kherson and the region.
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