So what exactly is it supposed to teach/train? If I understand meaning of individual words in the text I just put them together and I understand it. If its relatively complex topic I would sit and think about it.
First of all I must say that I can only speak about Russian schooling, Ukranian is probably similar but I can't be sure about it.
> resources for text construction
Not sure I understand this, there are words in a given language, you put them together and you have your text.
> The different meanings of a word relative to its semantic enviroment.
I agree that some words may have multiple meanings, but this again sounds to me like a language skill, be able to understand what exactly each word means in a context. Not sure how this is different for reading or speaking.
> When, how, and why to use all the different time vebrs.
This is an interesting one, I guess in Russian (I assume its similar in Ukranian) we don't have many complex time forms, I know in English and Spanish there are like 10 or more.
Somehow we only studied language and literature and did some exercises related to reading and understanding text, but it is not a whole separate subject.
In each school class kids are supposed to read books and learn from them, just like that.
