Jelalatdin N. Garlyyev
graduate student of the Foreign Languages
Institute of Hunan Normal University,
China, Changsha
e-mail: 1263127964@qq.com
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6819-6843
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24195/2616-5317-2026-42.9
SUMMARY
The article addresses the necessity of taking into account word order and the specific features of the communicative structuring of speech, that is, its actual division in both the target foreign language and the learner’s native language in order to form a correct understanding of the degree of importance of information within a sentence. Examples in Ukrainian are interpreted as a model for identifying the most important information highlighted in a sentence, since word order in an Ukrainian utterance, when analyzed from the perspective of actual division, most consistently reflects the informational actualization of an expressively neutral sentence. The languages compared in the study are English, Chinese, Japanese, and Turkmen. A comparison of the communicative paradigms of sentences with identical informational content in different languages demonstrates that an utterance may have a different number of communicative forms that vary according to their actual division. This provides grounds for a new communicative-paradigmatic approach to teaching the choice of word order in foreign language learning.
Key words: word order, communicative structure, actual division, communicative-paradigmatic approach, methods of teaching foreign languages.
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