Dubovyi K. Psychological Conditions for the Development of Communicative and Cognitive Components of Students’ Foreign-Language Abilities

The given dissertation is dedicated to studying the problem of developing communicative and cognitive components of students’ foreign-language abilities. Basing on theoretically-methodological analysis of domestic and foreign scientists’ viewpoints, the main ways of researching the abilities’ phenomenon were determined. This research paper discovers the interrelation of communicative and cognitive components of students’ foreign-language abilities with psychic processes and their psycho physiological peculiarities. Moreover, it determines both outer and inner factors contributing their foreign-language abilities’ development. The empirical research revealed that under the conditions of any foreign-language study method there exist three styles of its mastering: communicative, cognitively-linguistic and mixed. These styles are characterized by various correlation of abilities’ components and natural inclinations. The basic psychological conditions for the development of communicative and cognitive components of students’ foreign-language abilities are: teacher’s personality and the style of his relations with students; innovational methods of studying under the conditions of credit-module system; psycho didactic means of organizing students’ parity educational activity; beneficial emotionally-psychological climate. On the basis of study results we made practical recommendations for the foreign-language teachers of higher-educational establishments concerning the development of communicative and cognitive components of students’ foreign-language abilities.