Role of Comparative Analysis in Cognitive Oriented Teaching Methods of Russian as Foreign Language

• Main Author: Diana M. Mironova
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Sourthern Federal University 2017-12-01
• Series: Izvestiâ Ûžnogo Federalʹnogo Universiteta: Filologičeskie Nauki
• Subjects: types of speech activity; cognitive approach in foreign languages teaching; conceptualization and categorization of reality in the language; contrastive linguistics; teaching methods; realized-comparative method; knowledge structure
• Online Access: http://philol-journal.sfedu.ru/index.php/sfuphilol/article/view/1100
• ISSN: 1995-0640; 2312-1343

This article discusses some basis for the comparative representation of the language material from the view point of cognitive approach in teaching Russian as a foreign language. There is an attempt to comprehend the conceptual significance of the native language consideration during the formation of metalinguistic knowledge of learners in the Russian language. On the example of interlingual lexical correspondences and prepositional-case constructions it is analysed mental structures and mechanisms that provide link between language and extralinguistic reality in the consciousness of the Spanish-speaking students.