Пословицы и поговорки в языковом образовании в польской школе
Proverbs and Sayings in Language Education at Polish School

Summary/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 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 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.

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