Kykylyk I. Psychological Peculiarities of Students’ Language Abilities Actualization at the Higher Educational Establishments in the Process of Foreign Language Training

The thesis is devoted to the determination of the outer and inner interconnection factors of the general and specific language abilities formation. And also to the investigation of the correlation of the communicative and cognitive components of the foreign language abilities mastering, revealing of the role of the personal and natural factors of their development depending on the conditions – the methods of the training, style of teaching, students individual and age peculiarities. The typology of the students’ language abilities is considered in connection with the different teaching systems and methods. They are – the intensive, traditional and mixed ones. The comparative investigation of the age and individual-typological peculiarities of the students’ language mastering while using different teaching methods (communicative and traditional) is carried out. The individual-typological differences of the cognitive and communicative spheres have been established: the correlation of the verbal and non-verbal components of the abilities, unnatural-natural regulations of the actions, aural and visual memory, which provide the foreign languages learning efficiency. It has been discovered that the typological properties of the nervous system as the constant parameters of the higher nervous activity as well as the properties of the functional asymmetry of the cerebral hemisphere and the correlation of the signal systems are the inclinations of the general and special abilities, which influence the procedural and effective sides of the communicative and cognitive activity.