function of a textbook. Continuing this thought, it can concern other teaching means as
well [The same source].
To our mind, motivational function is distinctly expressed in the information
computer technologies, built on the text material, practical tasks of the search, research
and game character. Lately individual approach has been especially widely used in the
teaching process. Just via a personal computer a pupil has a unique possibility to
successfully realize his individual approach to studying process doing classwork or
homework.
Since implementation of information technologies at all teaching levels in the
institutions of secondary and higher education is a revolutionary breakthrough, it
carries distinct prospective character and has further realization in a person’s adult
professional life, it is necessary to lay the foundation of forming pupils’ skills to work
with a computer with the purpose of getting new educational information, new results
of the scientific and research activity in the Ukrainian and world science.
The primary education department of the Institute of Pedagogy in the Ukraine’s
National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences made a primary school graduate’s portrait.
Its main features should be a younger schoolchild’s intention to self-education,
understanding it as a condition for his own development [7, p. 5.].
Doing our research we made a questionnaire for the pupils of the third and forth
forms in several secondary schools in Cherkasy. Their purpose was to establish if the
teachers use information technologies at the lessons of the Ukrainian language. Pupils
were to choose answers to such questions:
1. Did you do teaching tasks at the lessons of the Ukrainian language using
computer programmes:
a) yes, I did them once or twice per month;
b) I seldom did them, once or twice per year;
c) I did not do them at all.
2. If you were offered to do computer tasks at the lessons of the Ukrainian
language, they were:
а) tests for reading and retelling;
b) exercises with grammar tasks;
c) tasks for searching new information.
3. Did you use computer tasks using other information sources:
а) yes, I did them with a dictionary;
b) yes, I did them with an encyclopedia, a reference book;
c) no, I did not
150 younger schoolchildren became the participants of the questionnaire. The
obtained results proved that primary school teachers seldom used information
technologies at the lessons of the Ukrainian language. Answering the first question of
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