Linguoculturological Project «A Birch Tree as a Symbol of Russia» (Learning Materials for Russian Language Lessons)

Abstract

One of the most important tasks of a teacher in a modern school is to form linguoculturological competence among students, i.e. attitude to the word as a cultural phenomenon and a spiritual and moral phenomenon. In the lessons of the school course of the Russian language, it is important to show students that the word is the bearer and keeper of the spiritual culture of the people. For this purpose, it is necessary to analyze keywords – symbols of national culture, for example, in the process of working on a linguoculturological project, which includes the following stages: drawing up a lexicographic portrait of a word; analysis of various texts – fiction, journalistic, popular science, etc., containing cultural studies information that is associated with the object of study; work with art sources: paintings, musical works, etc. related to the object of study. The article shows how, in the lessons of the Russian language from linguoculturological positions, you can explore the word birch in the whole variety of its meanings and uses. The result of the joint research activities of students and teachers should be a linguoculturological project on the theme «A birch tree as a symbol of Russia», which includes the following «pages»: lexicographic, etymological, word-forming, phraseological, folklore, literary, art history, cultural.