Covid Epidemic Impact on Education Through Spanish-Turkish-Ukrainian Associative Perception

Abstract

The article depicts the perception of the concept of «coronavirus» in the linguistic consciousness of native speakers of Ukrainian, Spanish, and Turkish concerning the impact of Covid-pandemic on education. Using the methods of free association test, 30 associative fields to the stimuli specifying the concept of coronavirus: «Coronavirus, Covid-19, pandemic, social distance, lockdown quarantine, mask, tests, self-isolation, vaccine» are obtained. The data provide the clear picture with what social senses of the coronavirus concept associates in the linguistic consciousness of Ukrainian, Spanish, and Turkish students. The negative stimuli linked with danger, uncertainty, disaster and illness are prevailed in three samples. There are practically no reactions form educational subject area.