Proverbs and sayings in language education at Polish school
Abstract
The results of research on proverbs and sayings in linguistics and didactics show that paremia has cognitive, educational and pedagogical functions and, therefore, it is worth considering the use of these language units in school practice.
The purpose of the article is to propose exercises that can be used in the process of teaching a foreign language, as well as to present the results of the analysis of Polish textbooks for learning Russian as a foreign language in the context of the presence in these textbooks of exercises containing paremiological units. It was assumed that learning of a foreign language, can be done through four groups of exercises, such as: 1) exercises for identifying specific phenomena, 2) productive exercises, 3) exercises developing speaking and writing skills, and 4) reflexive exercises. We analyzed 14 textbooks published in Poland in 1999-2014. 267 paremiological units and 65 exercises with proverbs and sayings were found in all the teaching materials.
The study showed that the largest number of identified tasks relate to productive linguistic-cultural exercises. In the analyzed textbooks, exercises developing oral and written speech in Russian and reflexive exercises are practically absent.
Keywords
proverbs and sayings, Polish textbook, exercises, Russian as a foreign language
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Dr hab., prof. Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku, kierownik Zakładu Językoznawstwa Interkulturowego i Glottodydaktyki w Katedrze Językoznawstwa Slawistycznego. Współorganizatorka cyklicznych konferencji międzynarodowych, m.in. Język rosyjski w najnowszych badaniach językoznawczych, interkulturowych i glottodydaktycznych oraz Kształcenie filologiczne — nurty badawcze i aplikacje dydaktyczne. W ramach programu Erasmus+ prowadziła zajęcia dydaktyczne na uczelniach zagranicznych (Pecz, Ryga,
Bergamo, Skopje). Zainteresowania naukowe: nauczanie i uczenie się języka obcego, podnoszenie jakości kształcenia w edukacji akademickiej, komunikacja i edukacja międzykulturowa, stereotypy językowe.
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