Foreign language education in foreign countries: the main vectors of Ukrainian pedagogical historiography

The main vectors and development trends of the historiography of Ukrainian pedagogical science for the study of foreign language education in foreign countries have been identified in the article. It has been shown that a substantive study of this problem began in the second half of the 1990s., in 2004 - 2007, attention to its study increased significantly, over the next decade there was a real boom in the scientific understanding of this phenomenon. This led to the expansion of the thematic spectrum of research and the strengthening of their interdisciplinary focus of research at the intersection of pedagogy, linguistics and other areas of knowledge. It has been found out that in the 2000s Ukrainian scientists began to substantively study the theoretical and organizational-methodological foundations of teaching foreign languages at different levels of foreign school education. This process was caused by pragmatic motives, therefore, foreign experience was comprehended primarily from the standpoint of its application in the Ukrainian educational space. This led to an aspect-selective approach to its study, therefore, foreign language education was conceptualized not as a separate phenomenon of pedagogy and linguodidactics, but fragmentarily, for purely utilitarian purposes. Against this background, the number of studies on pedagogical comparative studies on the development of foreign language education in individual countries, mainly in the Western European region, grew. Two important trends of the historiographic process of studying foreign language education have been identified. The first concerns the attempt to systematically comprehensively study the history, theory and practice of the development of foreign language education in the European educational space and in individual countries. The second dominant trend manifested itself in the research related topics, found its manifestation in the study of the development of foreign language education in different parts of the educational system (primary, first and second degrees of secondary school education, higher education, adult education) and individual components, directions of language education and strategy.