UDC 37.01+37.018.556
DOI: https://doi.org/10.30839/2072-7941.2018.149672

NATIONAL IDENTIFICATION AND FOREIGN LANGUAGE
EDUCATION IN UKRAINE

© LIASHENKO, L. M.
Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University (Kyiv, Ukraine)
E-mail larnik1881@gmail.com, ORCID: 0000-0002-6860-8552
© PALAMARCHUK, K.M.
Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University (Kyiv, Ukraine)
E-mail kate.Palamarchuk@gmail.com, ORCID:0000-0002-2287-5495

Abstract. The actuality of research paper is the integration of Ukraine into the
European Union and the achievement of victory over Russia in the "hybrid war" of the XXIst
century, the need to unite Ukrainian people around common goals based on national pride.
The Ukrainians study two important concepts - the Ukrainian the national idea (UNI) and the
national identity, the means of their evaluation and development. The aim of the research is
a critical analysis of common and distinctive concepts of the UNI and national identity. The
purpose of the research is to define the main difficulties for spreading the victorious UNI in
present conditions; to research the practice of studying and measuring the numerous
characteristics of national identification by sociologists and the other Ukrainian scholars (in
the first place - the language theme). The research methodology has a modern system and
multidisciplinary character. The method of dialectical analysis is taken from philosophy,
evolutionary approach - from historical sciences, comparative analysis - from linguistics and
pedagogics, etc. We will be constantly turning to the latest scientific discoveries in ethology,
cognitive science, noohistory and the other “young” sciences, that is necessary for predictions
in the topic of "national identification”. Particularly we are going to borrow foreign
experience in the protection of the national language and in effective teaching of foreign
languages. The main result of the research is the need to create and apply the UNI as a
strategic means on consolidation of Ukraine. UNI-21 should rely on a combination of
noohistory as the sum of exact dates of archaeological findings and the decoding of the DNA
of their organic part. The facts about the Great Trypillya and the other ancestors’
achievements of Ukrainians for over 15,000 years have already raised national pride and
created a scientific outlook. The noohistorians have created a new theory on the of the Indo-
European languages’ family origin. Besides they confirmed the hypothesis of German
linguists of the XIXth century about the extension of Indo-European languages’ family from
Ukraine's forest steppes. These and other facts are forming a high national pride, which
greatly facilitates the solution of language problems. Conclusion: We have proved that the
experience of Ireland on the language issues has special significance for modern Ukraine. It is
known that Ireland has been colonized by the United Kingdom for 800 years. The Irish were
suffered from a linguistic split and separation of a part of the nation, but they did not lose
their native language. And even after the “economic victory” over the colonialists in
circumstances of a very high standard living they started to restore the Irish language position
of the main state language.
Key words: native language, foreign languages, Ukrainian national idea, national pride,
national identity, Great Trypillya, Indo-European languages, language changes in Ireland