https://doi.org/10.31261/TPDJP.2007.19.10
A traditional didactics of syntax seems to experience crisis, proved not only by poor results of teaching syntax in Polish schools, but also a tendency of gradual withdrawal from syntax at the expense of semantics, pragmatics and the linguistics of text/discourse. What lacks is a common conception of teaching syntax at all educational levels (from primary to secondary schools). Thus, it is necessary to redefine the status of syntax didactics and readdress the questions concerning the aims given to syntax in school. The attitudes didacticians and linguists hold towards syntax in school can be divided into two main groups: those in favour of maintaining the school tradition, and their opponents being against the syntax by Z. Klemensiewicz and substituting it with other newer model. There is also a group proposing a compromise, that is combining traditions with modernity. This stand seems to be the most suitable from the perspective of the possibilities of modernising school syntax. The article offers suggestions of enriching and modernising the school syntax by means of introducing solutions used in cognitive linguistics. At the same time, adaptational possibilities of cognitivism in terms of the content of Podstawa programowa (1999) are evaluated. The school syntax should be completed with elements so far non-existent in didactics, such as unprototypical predicative forms, a general knowledge on modality, reference, deictic role of pronouns, quantifiers, and presupposition. An introduction of elements borrowed from cognitivism into the school sentence description, in line with a communicative approach to teaching, elevating a colloquial language style, should contribute to the acceleration and facilitation of the processes involved in sentence/text/discourse comprehension, and, thus, facilitation of syntax abilities within a communicative competence developed by the learner.
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Vol. 19 (2007)
Published: 2007-12-31
10.31261/TPDJP
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