Onyms in Teaching Aids for 3^rdGrade and Child's World Perception

• Authors: Anna Vulāne
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Introduction Onomasticon is one of most relevant nominal systems of language. The system reflects ways and methods for individual naming of objects, realias meaningful for an ethnos. For studying a nation's language world, anthroponyms and toponyms are especially important because a word is an object for studying an ethnos' conscious reality, a nation's world perception. A child acquires the concept of functional nuances of a proper name in a family; however it is important that pupils' attention during the learning process be drawn both to situational conditionality of use of proper names, and the principles of its choice and traditions in the native and other cultures. Likewise the pupil should acquire knowledge of norms of choosing the word's official or unofficial variants and skills of using them in communication. A pupil should also form the concept that choice of a variant, which does not correspond to the situational standard may cause communication difficulties. This in turn means that the mentioned aspects should be taken into account at developing contents of teaching aids.Aim of the study The aim of the research was to examine the role of onyms in 3rd grade teaching aids, what proper nouns get the child's attention, how the origin and ethnic-cultural connotation is revealed because especially at this stage, pupils should form a concept of proper nouns under the standard of basic education of the Latvian language.Materials and methods The empirical material was taken from sets of 3rd grade teaching aids and analysed by using the linguocultural approach and analyses of word's semantic structure, and the descriptive method.Results and conclusions The research brought forward that a 3rd grade pupil is given the possibility to get acquainted with several groups of onyms: persons' names, place-names, names of celestial bodies, names of institutions, enterprises, names of product varieties and others.Analysing the empirical material, it was concluded that:- taking into account the fact that the Latvian language is both a subject of studies and means of studying other subjects, it is important that during the learning process both in the background and in the direct contents Latvian world perception would be actualised consistently and purposefully, including also information from cultural history included in system of onyms. Special attention should be drawn to it during primary school, when the pupil, on the one hand, has his nearest world most important - the family, home, school, surroundings and, on the other hand, the pupil forms bases for scientific understanding of the world and the interest in values of his nation's culture is either created, fixed, or vice versa smothered;- although the 3rd grade teaching aids include wide, functionally, semantically, in the sense of origin and cultural marking a varied range of onyms, these however have not become the object of purposefully driven research activity and component of formation of pupils' scientific and language world perception;- authors of teaching aids have not found possibilities to offer tasks oriented at culture where not only the pupils' language knowledge would improve but also the cultural view would expand; therefore a teacher needs to supplement the learning contents by definite tasks and linguistic-culturological information in order to ensure worth-full acquisition of the Latvian language.

Keywords

EN

onym; persons' name; child's language; world perception; school

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Ad verba liberorum
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 1
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 86-95

Dates

published

2009-05-01

online

2012-08-21

Contributors

author

Anna Vulāne

• Child's Language Research Centre of RTTEMA, Latvia University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10196-011-0011-4