Associative experiment as a tool to analyze schoolchild's consciousness (with everysemantic words as stimuli)

The article features the findings of the associative experiment held with present-day school children who learn English as their first foreign language. The objective of the experiment lies in unveiling, how cognitive structures, which are represented in the language through everysemantic words, are shaped. The analysis and interpretation of the empirical data helps draw preliminary conclusions about the structure and the contents of the language consciousness of a present-day student.