DYNAMICS OF AMBIVALENT ASSESSMENT OF THE HIGHER EDUCATIONAL PROCESS DURING COVID–19 (THE CASE OF THE STUDENT PRAGMALINGUISTIC SURVEY)

Abstract

The ambivalent nature of the higher educational process was clearly manifested during the COVID–19 pandemic. Such an organization of teaching process generates new cognitive learning model, thus being the relevance of this study. Purpose. It is aimed at identification of students’ verbal ambivalent behavior and function to the new learning format over two time periods in dynamics: 2020-2021 and 2021-2022. The scientific novelty of the study is to establish students’ ambivalent assessment of the educational process in terms of COVID–19. This assessment was proved experimentally during the survey. Materials and methods. Materials of research are written recorded responses received from students during pragmalinguistic survey at the university. The following research methods were used: survey, lexico-semantic, pragmalinguistic experiment, as well as quantitative and interpretive methods. Results. The pragmalinguistic survey gives a detailed analysis of appraisal vector over the two reference groups: the survey of the first period has changed significantly compared to the second period. All 167 respondents showed ambivalent reactions, the first group demonstrates positive-negative ambivalence, while the second group shows negative-positive ambivalence. Thus, the ambiguous, diametrically-opposed attitude of students to the educational reality from the ambivalence research approach was established.