USING JOKES AS EDUCATIONAL TEXTS IN TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGES
An attempt to define joke as a modern folklore genre and to provide the typology of this kind of the texts from the point of view of lingvodidactics is made in the article. The article reveals that didactic potential of a referent joke as an educational text consists in formation and development of cognitive activity, impact on the sphere of feelings and emotions, acquaintance with the norms of the language, speech enrichment, and hidden system of monitoring the adequacy of understanding. The comic miniature is refereed to the genre of a joke. Possibility to use comic miniature for teaching Russian as a foreign language with corresponding methodical processing, which consists in selection of text material and its lingvocultural analysis is considered.
Keywords: methods of teaching foreign languages, didactic potential, educational texts, language picture of the world, joke, comic miniature
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Issue: 4, 2014
Series of issue: Issue 4
Rubric: TEACHING ENGLISH AT HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
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