In the article, an author attempted to specify the concept of dialect words as object of learning in the high school. The course «Ukrainian Linguistic Geography» is one of the leading places in the system of higher education disciplines. Possession of the Ukrainian literary norm is a primary task for a student-philologist, but one cannot ignore the fact that it was through the dialectal language that the Ukrainian literary language was formed and exists. The course «Ukrainian Linguistic Geography» in high school should familiarize students with Ukrainian dialectology as a science. Lecturer has inform to students find out subject, tasks, meaning and system of terms, teaches students to freely orient on the dialectological map of Ukraine, analyze dialectal texts, acquaint them with phonetic, morphological, lexical peculiarities of dialects of the Ukrainian language, develop skills of writing dialectal texts in phonetic transcription. In the process of presenting the theoretical and practical material of the course «Ukrainian Linguistic Geography», a number of problem points arise from the principles of analysis and representation of dialectal material. The author analyses the different and common features between linguistic geography and dialectology and takes aims to explore the core methodological and theoretical approaches of linguistic geography. Linguistic geography and dialectology are characterized by a number of common and distinctive features. First of all, it is found in the sources, purpose, subject, object, study conditions, methods of analysis. In the article there were determinate the main purpose, methods of research, sources of linguistic geography as a separate linguistic discipline. In both branches of linguistics the spatial variations of dialect language is object of interest and the visualization of language in spatial constructions is therefore also of growing significance. Accumulation of knowledge about the spatial distribution of linguistic phenomena, about the core and periphery structure language led to the formed of linguistic geography. Ukrainian linguistic geography is a separate linguistic discipline that emerged from dialectology in the nineteenth century and achieved development in the twentieth century. The high achievement of the modern Ukrainian school of linguistic geography was the publication of the three-volume Atlas of the Ukrainian language. Since linguistic geography is not only one of the domains with a lengthy tradition, it is also one of the most progressive fields in linguistics. In general, the course «Ukrainian Linguistic Geography» arranges the students theoretical knowledge, promotes creativity in independent work of students, development of skills of scientific researches, which must be thoroughly mastered by the future teacher-verb. Key words: linguistic geography, dialectology,teaching methods of the Ukrainian language, high school, atlas, core, periphery, vibrations zone, isogloss, contact zone.