Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
2017
Abstract
The paper addresses the advantages of teaching word class categorization in Czech in a constructivist manner. The problem of vagueness and blurriness of the linguistic category of word class is analyzed from the linguistic point of view, the lexicographer's point of view and the pedagogical point of view.
We argue that because of the overall change of the aims of the teaching process, constructivism is more in compliance with the principles of modern linguistic approaches than the transmissive teaching. It allows pupils to build their own linguistic concepts by their logical thinking and direct manipulation of language, shifting the attention from the word class categorization training to the analytical thinking.