DEVELOPMENT OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ LINGUOCULTURAL COMPETENCE UNDER CONDITIONS OF CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC: UKRAINIAN DIMENSION

Oct 15, 2026

The study analyzes educational means that support the development of university students’ linguocultural competence in Ukraine during the coronavirus pandemic. Approximately 60 senior students and 15 university instructors teaching in English and Chinese participated. The methodology combines analytical and practical examination of normative documents and includes interviewing and observation in an experimental training setting. Findings confirm the importance of culture-related issues, with most teachers and students preferring detailed cultural content and supporting culture-centered events. Results emphasize balanced integration of language and culture and highlight evaluation, accessibility, and effective presentation using digital resources.

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Introduction

Linguistic and culture-related studies in teaching and learning foreign languages

Research aim and methodology

Findings: culture integration and event-based learning

Implications for teachers and digital resource use

DOI: 10.20535/2410-8286.228611 DEVELOPMENT OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ LINGUOCULTURAL COMPETENCE UNDER CONDITIONS OF CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC: UKRAINIAN DIMENSION Alla Bogush, Tetiana Korolova, Oleksandra Popova State institution “South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K. D. Ushynsky”, Odesa, Ukraine [Alex-Popova@ukr.net](Alex-Popova@ukr.net) The aim of the study is to analyse the educational means facilitating the development of the linguocultural competence within the academic environment in Ukraine under conditions of the coronavirus pandemic. About 60 senior students and 15 university instructors giving classes in English and Chinese participated in the research. The research methodology is based on analytical and practical analyses of the normative documents facilitating the correlation of foreign language education standards in Ukraine, Europe and China; interviewing; observation (within the experimental study/training) . The results show that all students and instructors admitted the importance of culture-related issues in the process of teaching and learning languages; 99% of the teaching staff and 75% of the students chose a more detailed content of culture-related issues to be taught/learnt; 80% of instructors and 78% of the students highlighted the importance of organising culture-related events. The research results show that it is crucial to accomplish a balanced integration of language and culture in the teaching process. Teachers should clearly understand what cultural information is significant and how to make efficient use of it by applying digital resources. The key issues teachers should pay attention to are the evaluation of cultural information, its accessibility and the most efficient ways to present it to students. Keywords: university students; linguocultural competence; culturological approach; coronavirus pandemic. Introduction The issue regarding the development of university students’ linguocultural competence is always topical and determined by the international liaisons between Ukraine and other countries of the world. This raises the need in the training of highly qualified specialists who can use expertly their foreign language skills in particular profession-related spheres and demonstrate their cultural proficiency in order to maintain constructive relationships with partner states. Concurrently, the Ukrainian normative documents such as the Laws of Ukraine “On Education”,“On Higher Education”, the National Strategy for the Development of Education in Ukraine for the period up to 2021 and educational programmes are to be observed, since they regulate the contents of competences to be mastered in compliance with their key-note directions like culture-centricity, preservation and enhancement of national educational traditions, humanisation of education and its integration into the world educational space. In the education standards of Ukraine (Bachelor of Arts and Master degrees) for students majoring in Philology, intercultural and mass communication in its oral and written forms is one of the objectives of education. However, the realisation of the education standards has been hampered by the COVID-19 pandemic nowadays. The developing multipolar cross-cultural relations between Ukraine and both European and oriental countries substantiate the necessity to fit methodological support and the concurrent coronavirus pandemic conditions for effective university training aimed at the students majoring in foreign languages (English, Chinese, in particular) in the framework of the education standards as well as modern inter-governmental cooperation vectors. The specified reasons precondition the study of the pedagogical (education-related) technologies which could be provided for effective teaching/learning under the designated focus. Considering the abovementioned, we intend to analyse the following issues: specificities of university students’linguocultural competenc

FAQs

What is the aim of the study?

The study aims to analyze educational means that facilitate the development of linguocultural competence in Ukraine’s academic environment during the coronavirus pandemic.

How was the research conducted?

The methodology is based on analytical and practical examination of normative documents related to foreign language education standards, supported by interviewing and observation within an experimental training study.

What results highlight the role of culture in language teaching?

All students and instructors recognized the importance of culture-related issues. Most staff and students preferred more detailed cultural content, and many instructors and students stressed organizing culture-related events as part of teaching.

Oct 15, 2026

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