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Hu R. STRUCTURAL-FUNCTIONAL MODEL OF THE PROCESS OF ADAPTATION OF FOREIGN STUDENTS TO EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT UNIVERSITIES OF UKRAINE
Hu Rongxi, PhD, Senior Lecturer of the Department of Oriental Languages and Translation at the Institute of Philology, Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University, 13-b Tymoshenko Str., 04212 Kyiv, Ukraine, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

https://doi.org/10.28925/2078-1687.2017.3.713

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the main structural elements of the model of the process of adaptation of foreign students to the educational environment of higher educational institutions of Ukraine. The essence of the adaptation of foreign students to the educational environment of Ukrainian universities is defined, which is characterized as a complex process of active adaptation and development of the personality of the competitor of higher education in the educational space of the university of another state. The main positions of scientists on the presentation of the model of the process of adaptation of foreign students to the educational environment of universities of Ukraine are characterized in which the model is an artificially created object in the form of a schematic, symbolic forms or formulas that is very similar to the object or phenomena studied and reflects in a simpler and more general form Structure, properties, relationships and relationships between the elements of this object. As a basis in the modeling process, a structural-functional model was chosen that allows to display the composition, hierarchy of the components of the system of adaptation of foreign students and to reveal the relationship between the elements, to present the ways of functioning of this system. The essence and content of the structural and functional elements of the model of the process of adaptation of foreign students to the educational environment of higher educational institutions of Ukraine is analyzed and substantiated, namely: the conceptual-target block that characterizes the interaction of goals, objectives, methodological approaches (cultural, personal oriented, systemic), principles of adaptation Activities (systemic, humanizing, multicultural, dialogic, developmental and self-development); Content-activity block, which includes content, essence of adaptation activity, consists of information, value-communicative, technological components, the periods of the adaptation process (socio-interactive, socioeconomic and sociocompetent); Criterially-productive unit that, due to certain criteria (cognitive, motivational-value, emotional-volitional, organizational-activity), fixes the degree of approximation of the result of adaptation activity to the purpose of the model-the successful adaptation of foreign students.

Keywords: adaptation;  adaptation of foreign students;  educational environment;  model;  structural and functional model.

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