PROJECT-BASED METHOD IN TEACHING INTERTEXTUAL ANALYSIS TO FUTURE LINGUISTS

The paper discusses a case of implementing project-oriented activities in the course of linguistic training. Despite various existing studies of project-oriented activities and their effectiveness in learning foreign languages, it seems appropriate to investigate it in the context of students’ analytical work with texts.

Reading and analyzing authentic texts contributes to the development of language. Alongside with that, it helps to form the skill to search for the required information and carry out critical analysis and synthesis of the information, and the ability to give a well-grounded account of the results of one’s intellectual activity. Reading texts in the original language contributes to mastering cross-cultural realia, such as culture and history of another country. To develop the linguistic and cultural competence of a student, it is important to distinguish the linguistic means of intertextual markedness used to demonstrate the correlation of texts created by the culture in a single semiosphere.

The research project targeting intertextual text analysis within the framework of the discipline “The History of Foreign Literature” consisted of several stages. Analytical work on the text was carried out individually and was then followed by a group discussion of the results achieved.

The paper provides a detailed description of all the stages, mid-term and final reporting in the form of analytical reviews and posters. The paper presents an excerpt from an analytical review of the Irish story “Memory and desire” by Val Mulkerns. The authors describe different aspects of the group’s work and their interaction with the teacher and the presentation of the project results.

The authors present the criteria for project evaluation and the assessment mechanism. They analyze the results of monitoring activity aimed at identifying how well the students are aware of the key concepts of decoding stylistics at the beginning and the end of the project-based course.

The paper describes the contribution of the project-based method to the study of a core discipline and outlines prospects for further work.