Consciousness and intuition in the study of foreign languages

Abstract

Language acquisition includes the sociocultural context of the development of person’s consciousness. This is true that the attitude for both the mother tongue and the foreign language is the same, but the difference is that, mastering the mother tongue, the child means a preverbal picture of the world; while a foreign language is studied mainly by an individual who already has a picture of the world formed in the context of the mother tongue. There is no doubt that at each level of foreign language competence the maximum automation of the corresponding language structures is necessary, which creates the conditions for freedom of thought transformations and provides opportunities for the manifestation of linguistic intuition. It should be noted that the subconscious mind includes those manifestations of intuition that arise from previously accumulated experience. In our case, this is an intuitive use of gramma.