The Typology of Poetic Text Comprehension

Abstract

The purpose of the research is to assess the relevance of the research of psychological features of understanding contemporary poetry by future philolo-gists on the basis of questionnaires; to propose the levels of understanding the text.methods of the research. The following theoretical methods of the re-search were used to solve the tasks formulated in the article: a categorical me­thod, structural and functional methods, the methods of the analysis, systemati-zation, modeling, generalization. The method of organizing empirical research was used as the experimental method.the results of the research. Future philologists of all courses show a signifi-cant level of interest (50% – 55%) according to the poetry of Ukrainian authors, prose writers through watching TV shows and reading periodicals. In the condi-tions of contemporary higher education the ability of students to acquire know­ledge independently in the connection with the introduction of the competence approach provided in education plays a special role. We proved, that 66%–70% of respondents had tried to comprehend a poetry of their own form and the form having been explicated their own impression of what they had already read; 31% of students of the 1st and the 2nd courses and 28.6% of students of the 3rd and the 4th courses had had a high level of the interpretation of the teacher’s activity. Thus, a great number of students have the awareness of the need to indepen-dently form the opinion about what they have read.conclusions. In the typology of text comprehension we have found four levels. Each previous level is an indispensable condition for the existence of the next one. At the first level only the substantive content of the text is conveyed, which does not provide the necessary understanding of it. The second level of un-derstanding is commentary one. Understanding the text at this level means not only being able to retell the first text with other language units, but also to com-ment it from the point of view of the context. The third level of understanding is the interpretation of the text (philosophical, historical­literary, psychological, etc.). This task is to master deep meanings. The fourth level of understanding is a methodological one, where the contradictions that are arisen at the previous level are resolved