PSYCHODIAGNOSTIC WAY OF RECOGNITION THE LEVEL OF GRAMMAR SKILLS PROFICIENCY IN ENGLISH

Abstract

The diagnostic methods of forming language competency are an urgent task of teaching at present time. It requires methodological rethinking based on the achievements of modern linguistic research. Striving to work out an efficient test of second language skills diagnostics, the author of the paper takes into consideration the methodology of conducting a free associative experiment. The present study involves the analysis of the language deviations received in the conducted experiment. The obtained results are classified to form an associative chain which could be used to identify the level of proficiency of the English grammar skills. The conducted analysis of language errors presented by Russian-speaking bilinguals lays the basis of further classification. Therefore, the gradation of language disorders is established which can serve as the ground to determine the degree of grammatical skills acquisition in the process of learning the English language.