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13th International Conference
on Functional Grammar
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| FG and language teaching at universities:
succesful cases |
Paolo Driussi,
Universitŕ degli Studi de Udine, Udine,
Italy
In my poster I
would like to show the advantages offered by Dik's FG in
language teaching. The specific case is Hungarian teaching to
university students, adults who attained for the first time
Hungarian classes.
In most
available manuals the teaching model is preferably derived
from German or English teaching models, with a corresponding
grammatical description quite far from that of Hungarian. This
is particularly true if seen through a linguist experience and
scope, especially because many considerations obviously mirror
the problems Hungarian speakers are used to face in the
grammar of their mother tongue.
In avoiding
these limits FG demonstrates itself easy to introduce and
reliable. A first important (though limited) attempt at using
it has already been done by Hegedűs (2004).
For Hungarian
language is distinctive a special stress on pragmatics, that
is also so important in FG. Other approaches have to justify
some features of this language (see É. Kiss and Horváth)
that FG can explain at much ease.
To the scholar,
teaching using FG is also an opportunity for better studying
the language itself, because the problems that arise with
foreign students allow for more attention to some questions
previously not even seen. In this it is very helpful for
deeper ingoing into some aspects of language.
But FG offers further advantages. Its application
helps students avoiding some parallels and prejudices that can
lead to mistakes. Moreover FG is especially helpful in
explaining features of language that in other theoretical
frames can't have a homogenous traitment.
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| References: |
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Hegedűs,
Rita 2004. Magyar nyelvtan. Formák, funkciük, összefüggések. Budapest: Tinta (Segédkönyvek a nyelvészet
tanulmányozásához XXIX.)
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Horvath,
Julia 1986. Focus in the theory of grammar and the syntax of
Hungarian. Dordrecht: Foris.
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É. Kiss,
Katalin 1981a.
"Structural relations in Hungarian, a “Free” Word
Order language", in Linguistic Inquiry 12, 185-218.
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É. Kiss,
Katalin 1981b.
"Topic and Focus: the Operators of the Hungarian
sentence", in Folia Linguistica XV, 305-330.
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É. Kiss,
Katalin 1987.Configurationality in Hungarian. Budapest: Akadémiai kiadó.
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