Language Consciousness and Ukrainian Students’ Attitudes Towards the Ukrainian Language in a Time of War

Abstract

By applying the survey method, the article presents and summarizes the theoretical questions of language policy, the language consciousness of students and their attitudes towards the Ukrainian language both before and after the start of the current Russo–Ukrainian war. Students from four universities took part in the survey: Kyiv National Linguistic University, Ivan Franko National University of L'viv, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, and Yuriy Fedkovych National University of Chernivtsi.

Keywords

• language policy
• students’ language consciousness
• emotional attitudes to language
• survey method