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7. Some psycholiguistic peculiarities

OF SPEECH AND METHODOLOGY OF FOREIGN

LANGUAGE TEACHING

7.1. PSYCHOLINGUISTIC PECULIARITIES OF SPEECH.

SUBJECT OF PSYCHOLINGUISTICS 97

  1. UNIVERSAL OBJECT CODE 98

  2. SIGNIFICATIVE STRUCTURE OF WORD 100

  3. MENTAL OPERATIONS OF TRANSLATING ONE IMAGE

OF WORD INTO ITS OTHER IMAGES 106

7.1. Psycholinguistic peculiarities of speech. Subject of psycholinguistics

First of all it is necessary to clear the definition of the language. Any

language is a system of signs, which was formed by a language community through its historical development, and which serves as a means of speech communication, as a means of developing Man's thinking and as a means of accumulating and developing social, cultural, scientific and historical experi­ence of any language community [29, 23; 41, 530].

Psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics including, studies regularities and mental factors of functioning of the language system and speech-generating mechanisms of Man. Cognitive linguistics attempts to model and describe various structures of representation of knowledge and semantics of language units in the language system and speech-generating mechanisms. On the ba­sis of its research universal meaningful components of Man's consciousness have been obtained [39, 324].

When meaning (sense) is either generated or comprehended in speech, language mechanisms (language laws) interact with psycholinguistic speech-generating mechanisms of Man [39, 509]. This kind of interaction is always conditioned by socially backgrounded communicative aims of Man.

Meaning is generated at different mental levels, each being expressed by its specific code. These levels present universal meaningful components of Man's consciousness.

For methodology of teaching foreign languages it is very important to know which of these levels play a particularly important part in the processes of speech production and speech comprehension, as well as in what way they interact.

The most important levels of Man's speech-generating mechanisms which are available in Man's consciousness are the following ones: the vi ual image of a word, its sound-motor (or auditory ) image, its sound-letter (or graphic ) image, the meaning (or concept ) of a word and the sense of a word [29, 27]. They make up the significative structure of any word of the language.

As a system of signs language system can be used by speakers on the basis of conscious-raising approach, without it or with partial conscious-raising understanding [29, 92]. For conscious-raising understanding of the language system people described it in a great lot of language rules.

In methodology a totality of language codes specific for each level and language rules (fixed in learners' minds on the basis of consciousness-raising approach) as mechanisms of mental language operations and actions is called language competence. Realisation of language competence to produce mean­ing (or sense) in a socially backgrounded speech interaction is called com­municative speech competence [51].

Rational, natural and effective foreign language instruction can be realized only if language competence and communicative speech competence support each other in the process of teaching.