Ways to optimize the speech activity of future civil servants in a higher education institution

The article is dedicated to the current problem connected with the improvement of Ukrainian language proficiency level of the specialists in the field of public administration. The author aims to outline and scientifically substantiate some ways to optimize the speech activity of future civil servants within the environment of a higher education institution. The author outlines the main ways of this process: to increase the requirements to the volume, content and structure of textbooks and manuals; to deepen connections of the Ukrainian language course with such disciplines as Rhetoric, Psychology and Ethics; to increase the volume of communicative tasks on professional topics; to rationalize the usage of e-learning platforms to meet the professional and communicative needs of the students. The article states that the teacher considers language as a means of linguistic and cultural identity tool as well as an instrument of the socio-political interaction in society. The interaction between students and teachers is the main requirement to all types of speech activity (listening, reading, speaking and writing) to be efficient. The analysis of linguodidactic, psychological, pedagogical and linguistic sources carried out by the author provided the theoretical basis of the research. In particular, the definitions of the terms «speech activity», «types of speech activity» have been given. The article also names the guiding principles that should be followed in the process of learning the Ukrainian language. A set of the prime methods of teaching the Ukrainian language to future civil servants in a higher education institution was selected according to a number of the outlined criteria. The author emphasizes the subjective aspect in the teacher's creative activity − the ability to choose and combine the best methods and techniques while teaching. A special place in the publication is given to the description of the structure and content of the educational and methodological complex of the discipline «Ukrainian (for Professional Purposes)» for bachelor-course students specialized in 281 «Public Management and Administration». The methods and techniques that have proven their effectiveness in the process of testing are listed. The obtained results prove the achievement of the research goal and allow us to outline its prospects.