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.