Emotional Intelligence in the Context of Linguodidactics and Linguocultural Studies

In the article, for the first time in Eastern European 
linguodidactics, an original method of using students' emotional 
intelligence data and their personal linguoculture for a new structuring of 
didactic material in the study of foreign languages (on the example of 
Ukrainian as a foreign language) is offered. 
The authors aimed to make theoretical generalizations and conclusions 
about the main subject of the research, to determine the types of emotional
intellectual relation of students to a foreign language in the classes of the 
higher educational institutions and to model the general methodological 
scheme on the basis of sociological and functional-semantic data. 
The used methods can be clearly divided into theoretical, sociological and 
modeling, which made it possible to demonstrate a new approach to the 
thematic presentation of didactic material on the example of the concept 
HAPPY and determine the degree of flexibility of students' emotional 
intelligence in foreign language classes. 
First of all, the international significance of the article lies in the first 
attempt of the synthesis of the theory of emotional intelligence and 
linguoculturology (theory of concepts) in the optimization of the foreign 
language didactics; secondly, the authors, with the help of associative 
experiment and functional-field thematic structuring, offered a new model 
of presenting the lexical material of foreign language teaching for the first 
time.