Lexico-Associative Image of a Teacher in the Language Consciousness of a Future Teacher: According to a Free Associative Experiment

Inna  Zavalniuk; Nina  Kukhar; Valentyna  Bohatko; Tetiana  Tsepkalo; Iryna  Syrko; Hanna  Diadchenko

doi:10.36941/jesr-2023-0002

Authors

Inna Zavalniuk Vinnitsіa Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi State Pedagogical University, 32, Ostrozhskoho Street, 21100, Vinnytsia, Ukraine
Nina Kukhar Vinnitsіa Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi State Pedagogical University, 32, Ostrozhskoho Street, 21100, Vinnytsia, Ukraine
Valentyna Bohatko Vinnitsіa Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi State Pedagogical University, 32, Ostrozhskoho Street, 21100, Vinnytsia, Ukraine
Tetiana Tsepkalo Vinnitsіa Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi State Pedagogical University, 32, Ostrozhskoho Street, 21100, Vinnytsia, Ukraine
Iryna Syrko Department of English Language Practice, Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University, 2, Les` Kurbas Street, 82100, Drohobych, Ukraine
Hanna Diadchenko Sumy State University, 2, Rymskogo-Korsakova Street, 40007, Sumy, Ukraine

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36941/jesr-2023-0002

Keywords:

associate, associative field, free associative experiment, word-stimulus, token “teacher”, lexical-associative image of a teacher, emotional-evaluative component of meaning

Abstract

The article analyzes the results of a free associative experiment to determine the associative image of the teacher in the language consciousness of students of pedagogical specialty. The experiment was conducted to determine the degree of influence of extralingual factors on the status of teachers in the modern world, strengthened by the reform processes in education, reorientation to a competency-based approach to training students within the project “New Ukrainian School”. In the associative field of the token “teacher” there are four thematic areas: “Nomination of a person on a professional basis” “Teacher's characteristics”. “Learning process”.

Received: 6 July 2022 / Accepted: 5 December 2022 / Published: 5 January 2023