On the Object of Studying the Problem of Sociocultural Dependence of Speech and Language Development of a Child

The article regards the content and correlation of such concepts as “speech”, “language”, “speech activity”, “speech and language ability”, “sense of language”, “metalinguistic awareness”, “language competence” in the context of substantiating the object of studying the problem of sociocultural dependence of speech and language development of a child. It is shown that the concept of language competence completely meets the principles of wholeness, subjectivity, psychological determinism, historical succession and practice orientation in the treatment of the given problem.

metalinguistic awareness, ontogenesis, child, language ability, speech, sense of language, language, language competence