VASYL SIMOVYCH ABOUT THE ROLE OF THE NATIVE LANGUAGE IN THE INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT OF A CHILD

Abstract

The article highlights the views of the outstanding Ukrainian linguist Vasyl Simovych on the dependence of the intellectual development of the child on the language of their education - native or foreign. The innocent, at first glance, question of the language of learning of a child in school becomes particularly acute, if you look at it from the point of view of the actual linguistic, according to which language performs two most important functions - communicative and thought-making. Since every language as an instrument of thought has its own architecture, structure, the thinking of each people is determined by it. Before school the child learns the native language, which becomes the foundation on which the possibilities of their intellectual development are grounded. Studying of a child at school in a foreign language requires much effort, a lot of time and stubborn struggle, in order to transform the child's brain, reformat the way of thinking in accordance with the structure of the non-native language for them. It impedes the intellectual development of the child, puts it in unequal conditions of learning with those students for whom the language of studying is native. The concept of the scientific relationship of the factor of the mother tongue and the intellectual development of the child was especially relevant at the time of the writing of the studio - 1934. The Ukrainians of Galicia, Bukovyna, after all of Ukraine, had a bitter personal experience, like other stateless people, teaching children in foreign-language schools, in which educational process was based not on educational and pedagogical principles, but on purely political considerations, greatly complicate the acquisition of education and knowledge by non-state peoples. The studio of the scientist-linguist did not lose its significance today.