Tools For The Development of Emotional Intelligence: Cognitive Native Language Teaching

Abstract

The study is devoted to the establishment of connections between teaching the native language and the emotional intelligence of students. It proved a statistically significant positive effect of the cognitive native (Ukrainian) language teaching on students' emotional awareness, managing one's emotions, self-motivation, empathy, and recognizing other people's emotions. The study describes the method of cognitive native (Ukrainian) language teaching that is based on integrating college students' mental and communicative activities. The participants of the pedagogical experiment were 312 students and 16 teachers from various educational institutions in Ukraine. Hall's method assessed the impact of the cognitive native (Ukrainian) language teaching on students' emotional intelligence. Empirical data were analyzed statistically (significance level 0.05): the Pearson test for confirming the normality of group distributions and the Student's criterion for estimating averages. Statistical analysis showed statistical uniformity of EG and CG at the beginning of the experiment; the significance of changes for the scales "emotional awareness," "self-motivation, " and "empathy" in the middle of the study; and the statistical significance of changes for all scales after the experiment.