Lexis Learning Assignments as a Special Kind of Secondary Texts: Creation and Solution Using Linguistic Dictionaries

In this article, the authors attempt to show the learning opportunities of lexicographical sources while learning the lexicology and the Russian language as a whole. As the basic methods, we use the method of controlled selection, which allows specific dictionary entries to be considered; the method of contextual analysis, revealing the features of linguistic elements functioning in context; the method of intertextual analysis, which helps to identify the signs of the source text in relation to the secondary text structure; the method of synchronous and diachronous analysis, aimed at studying units from the historical and modern points of view in a specific period of the language development. We propose various types of assignments for students’ advanced training in lexicology, including those that can be used as Academic Olympics tasks in linguistic competitions in the Russian language at various levels. The primary basis for creating assignments was the material of linguistic dictionaries, which is cognitively significant when studying lexicology. The presented learning assignments are a special type of secondary texts, since their creation involves the selection of material according to certain criteria, the formulation of a question according to well-known schemes and models, as well as the reliance on prototext materials – articles of linguistic dictionaries, transformed in terms of lexical-semantic, grammatical, compositional, pragmatic and other aspects.

1. Babailova A.Eh. Tekst kak produkt, sredstvo i ob”ekt kommunikatsii pri obuchenii nerodnomu yazyku: sotsiopsikholingvist. aspekty [Text as a product, means and object of communication in teaching a non-native language: Sociopsycholinguist. aspects] / pod red. A.A. Leont’eva. Saratov, 1987. (In Rus.)

2. Bogatyreva O.P. Funktsional’naya tipologiya uchebnogo yazykovogo teksta-ob”ekta v sostave tekstovogo kompleksa prezentatsii [Ehlektronnyi resurs] [Functional typology of academic language text object in the structure of the text of the complex presentation]. In Mir lingvistiki i kommunikatsii [World of linguistics and communication [Electronic resource]]. 2007, No3 (8), ID number 0420700038\0030. – URL: http://tverlingua.ru/archive/008/section_2_8/ 2_3_8.htm (data obrashcheniya [access date]: 06.05.2019). (In Rus.)

3. Vinogradov V.V. Russkii yazyk: grammaticheskoe uchenie o slove: uchebnoe posobie dlya studentov vuzov [Russian language: Grammatical knowledge about the word – a studybook]. 3-e izd., ispr. [2nd edition, revised]. Moscow, 1986. (In Rus.)

4. Golev N. D., Saikova N.V. K osnovam derivatsionnoi interpretatsii vtorichnykh tekstov [Towards the basics of derivational interpretation of secondary texts]. In Yazykovoe bytie cheloveka i ehtnosa: psikholingvisticheskii i kognitivnyi aspekty [Language being of a person and an ethnos: psycholinguistic and cognitive aspects]. 2001, issue 3, pp. 20–27. (In Rus.)

5. Ionova S.V. Approksimatsiya soderzhaniya kak osnovnoe svoistvo vtorichnykh tekstov [Approximation of content as the main property of secondary texts]. In Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Seriya 2. Yazykoznanie [Science Journal of Volgograd State University. Linguistics]. 2005, No.4, pp. 33–37. (In Rus.)

6. Kruglikova L.E. Ispol’zovanie “Bol’shogo akademicheskogo slovarya russkogo yazyka” pri obuchenii v shkole [The use of the “Big Academic Dictionary of the Russian Language” when teaching at school]. In Russkii yazyk v shkole [Russian language at school]. 2012, No.5, pp. 21–24. (In Rus.)

7. Lazurkin A.A. Lingvisticheskoe i metodologicheskoe nasledie v ispol’zovanii slovarei na urokakh russkogo yazyka [Linguistic and methodological heritage in the use of dictionaries in Russian language lessons]. In Odinnadtsatye Polivanovskie chteniya. Sb. st. po materialam dokladov i soobshchenii mezhdunar. nauchnoi konf. [Eleventh Polivanov readings. Collection of articles on the materials of reports and messages of the international scientific conf.]. Smolensk, 2016, pp. 151–156. (In Rus.)

8. Lomonosov M.V. Rossiiskaya grammatika. Faksimile s izd. 1755 g. [Russian grammar. Facsimile from the 1755 edition]. Moscow, 1982. (In Rus.)

9. Maidanova L.M. Rechevaya intentsiya i tipologiya vtorichnykh tekstov [Speech intention and typology of secondary texts]. In Chelovek – Tekst – Kul’tura. Kollekt. monografiya [Man. Text. Culture: Collective monograph] / pod. red. N.A. Kupinoi, T.V. Matveevoi. Ekaterinburg, 1994, pp. 81–90. (In Rus.)

10. Novikov A.I., Suntsova N.I. Kontseptual’naya model’ porozhdeniya vtorichnogo teksta [Conceptual model of secondary text generation]. In Obrabotka teksta i kognitivnye tekhnologii [Text processing and cognitive technology]. 1999, issue 3, pp. 158–166. (In Rus.)

11. Rozental’ D.E., Telenkova M.A. Spravochnik lingvisticheskikh terminov [Handbook of linguistic terms]. Moscow, 1972. (In Rus.)