Abstract
The application of a methodology based on S.C. Dik’s Functionalist Grammar linguistic principles, which is addressed to the teaching of Latin to secondary students, has resulted in a quantitative improvement in students’ acquisition process of knowledge. To do so, we have used a self-learning tool, an ad hoc dictionary, of which the use in different practices has made students understand, at a basic level, the functioning of this language.
Highlights
When learning a foreign language, two types of linguistic knowledge converge
Most important Latin dictionaries have been compiled with a range of theoretical principles that are affiliated to different linguistic schools, with the aim of complementing the strictly semantic information with syntactic or morphological arguments
We found an obvious reason: A 4th-year secondary education student, with very few exceptions, does not have the necessary linguistic tools to analyze in detail a deep study of the Functional Grammar (FG) principles
Summary
When learning a foreign language, two types of linguistic knowledge converge. On the one hand, we must focus on the mastery of its grammatical factors, and, on the other hand, we must study its lexicon. The help that a lexicographical guide of this nature can provide would be unparalleled because the grammatical information is already offered in the lexical entries and the student does not need to consult grammatical guides, and, the effort and time of learning would significantly diminish Deepening in this investigation project, this work covers a double objective: To try the proposed. We believe it is important to highlight that the dictionary we are presenting is a simplified model, which is adapted to our students This dictionary has been compiled from a much more complex model, in which the entries on verbs, nouns, pronouns and adjectives gather detailed information about their semantic functions, lexical characterization and their relations with other lexicographical units. This dictionary follows a very similar structure to the one used by Functional Grammar in the description of predicative frameworks
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