TEACHING PUBLIC SPEECH OF SENIOR STUDENTS TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE PROGRAM AND MATERIALS OF THE UKRAINIAN LANGUAGE TEXTBOOK

Abstract

The article considers the issue of the organization of the educational material on Rhetoric at the final stage of learning the Ukrainian language subject in grades 10–11 of secondary schools. The present paper is focused on analyzing program requirements, implementation of program requirements in the Ukrainian language textbooks and guidelines based on changing the content of lessons on the development of coherent speech at secondary school as the basis of the final stage of learning Ukrainian – improving public speaking (monologue, dialogue, polylogue) at the lessons of Rhetoric. The definition of the concept «public speaking» has been offered as a special genre variety of speech activity indicates the ability to influence listeners in monologues, dialogues or polylogues in order to learn, persuade, encourage, enjoy aesthetic pleasure, etc. by means of speech. Planning and implementation of the study of the section «Rhetoric» is demonstrated in the Ukrainian language programs for grades 10–11 and in textbooks at the theoretical and practical levels. The programs pay attention to the text-centric approach to the study of the Ukrainian language in general and Rhetoric in particular. The explanatory note of the program contains information about the study of the basics of Rhetoric - the theory and practice of perfect speech, convincing, appropriate, effective; education of a rhetorician as a worthy citizen, competent in public speaking; determination of norms and rules of public argumentation and criteria for evaluation of oral speech activity. Having analyzed the programs and textbooks in the Ukrainian language for the 10th and 11th grades, we conclude that the proposed textbook material is valuable and important for teaching public speaking, but it does not correspond to the content of the programs. Practical tasks have a multi-vector orientation, there is no system in which knowledge and skills would function as a single coherent organism. Taking into consideration the results of the analysis of the Ukrainian language program for the 10th and 11th grades in public speaking and analyzing the relevant textbooks, we offer theoretical and practical material for teaching the seniors oral public speaking based on what they have studied in school. The proposed knowledgeable material for the 10th and 11th grades contains information on public speaking aimed at developing skills: to plan, model communication situations, produce texts based on natural or artificial situations, make a plan of speech (invention), produce compositional parts of the text, argue (disposition), choose figures and phrases (elocution), choose paths and stylistic figures (eloquence), memorizing a speech (memory), say a monologue (action), express a personal attitude to what is heard etc. The materials of the textbook should demonstrate what is planned in the program at the theoretical and practical levels for the acquisition of knowledge and the formation of public speaking skills.