INTERACTIVE MAP OF DIALECTS AS THE PROFESSIONAL TRAINING TOOL FOR PHILOLOGY STUDENTS

The article represents an innovative technological development of researchers at Uzhhorod National University (interactive map of dialects), the introduction of which into the educational process for philological specialties makes it possible to optimize educational and scholastic work of students, especially at distance and blended learning. Created by IT specialists, the software product, the content of which is filled by linguists, allows users to introduce dialect material (data from printed dialectological atlases, dictionaries, as well as independently collected in the field) into the database, presenting it in the necessary aspects for learning Ukrainian. This innovative way of recording language data optimizes the process of studying the peculiarities of Ukrainian dialects and simplifies routine procedures for collecting, accumulating and analyzing empirical material, which is of great interest for linguistics, history, archeology, ethnography and ethnology, culturology and other research and educational fields. related to the study and learning of the history and current state of material and spiritual culture of ethnic groups, Ukrainian in particular. In addition to interdisciplinary use both in the educational process of higher education and in the research aspect, the advantage of the developed software product is the possibility of its multi-vector scaling: as the project is potentially designed not only for Ukraine and the Ukrainian language, but also for other countries and languages, adding the word of available country selection (at the time of writing, Ukraine and Hungary are available). The uniqueness of the development lies in the fact that it serves primarily as an educational and scholastic tool that integrates well the research potential of IT students (acting as software developers) and philology students (its first testers and content fillers). Such synergistic activity in the course of training of seemingly different vector specialists gives the result that can be interesting for students of other areas of training (future historians, culturologists, tourism experts, etc.).