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In the article, there is considered a question, important for education, which concerns the conditions that contribute to involving the learners into notional interaction based on their understanding of the meanings of what is happening. There is substantiated the necessity of additional organization of the notional orientation of learners toward the situation which opens a possibility of the further understanding of not only the information but also the meaning of the texts, the relations of the opinions and generation of their own ones. According to the data obtained by the author, joint organization of the conditions of a pedagogical situation, verbalization by the learners of the significant themes and notions assist in realizing the above task. The author considers the diagnostic function of the metaphor to be the most appropriate method of fixation of the effectiveness of the notional interaction.