THE ROLE OF THE PARAPHRASING COMPETENCE IN ELABORATING RECEPTION EXERCISES
THE ROLE OF THE PARAPHRASING COMPETENCE IN ELABORATING RECEPTION EXERCISES

Summary/Abstract: The role of the paraphrasing competence in elaborating reception exercises. Our study is based on the premise that, in the case of native speakers, the ability to paraphrase is innate, without their internalising any paraphrasing rules, whereas a non-native speaker is commonly bound to acquire such rules. Although the general studies dedicated to the didactic-related paraphrase focus rather on developing the paraphrasing competence specific to foreign students, our aim is to highlight the paraphrasing competence of the teacher-native speaker, more exactly, the awareness of their own paraphrasing operations while elaborating various didactic materials on the oral- and written-reception competences in the Romanian language. If during the oral communication to the students, the teacher’s appeal to the paraphrase, viewed as an explicative method, is, to a certain degree, intuitive, and thus difficult to record, control and analyse, in the case of oral- and written-reception exercises (the input-texts, the proper items), the mechanisms of paraphrasing adopted by the teacher are easier to identify and examine. The aim of our study is to sensitise the teachers to the adequate use of the paraphrase in elaborating reception exercises, so that the foreign students can have easier access to the meaning of the oral or written message, along with the development of their paraphrasing competence.

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