MATHEMATICAL COMPETENCE AS A COMPONENT OF LINGUISTIC PERSONALITY IN THE PROCESS OF TEACHING THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

The article substantiates the expediency of highlighting mathematical competence as a component of linguistic personality, which is due to the need to apply not only linguistic but also mathematical knowledge during the teaching of the English language. It is stated that in European regulatory documents, consideration of the personality’s mathematical competence is associated with the need to anticipate changes in production, distribution of resources, social structure, changing trends in the labor market, calculating the probability of economic risks, assessing profitable trade offers, and potential political and socio-economic crises. In turn, the possession of mathematical competence in the Ukrainian legislative framework provides for the practical application of mathematical data in the field of exact, humanitarian, natural, social sciences, political, economic, cultural, and domestic spheres in order to realize the peculiarities of organization and patterns of functioning of world phenomena, present creative content, and achieve professional development. In scientific research, mathematical competence is considered a personal formation that makes it possible to evaluate, interpret, and predict the results of activities; a combination of abilities and personal properties for the fulfillment of one’s professional potential; and the ability to apply mathematical knowledge (to operate with numbers, logical thinking, abstraction, analysis, etc.) to solve problems in real-life situations. It has been found that mathematical competence as a component of linguistic personality in the course of teaching the English language involves the ability to categorize linguistic phenomena and facts and critically comprehend the linguistic context for correct interpretation of information. It implies the skills to structure one’s own speech activity through the selection of linguistic and speech means that are appropriate to the content of the communication situation. Besides it enables the creation of an algorithm of actions to perform current tasks necessary for constructing logically completed statements.