Abstract
The authors consider a meaning essay as a semantic technique, not only as convenient for any learning format (distance, full-time, mixed), but also as effective, capable of initiating the formation of students' meaning and launching a mechanism for comprehending the subject content at a deep, internal level. The formulation of an essay during the lesson at any of its stages, as well as as homework, is, according to the authors, a kind of «meaning task.» Delivered by the teacher or formulated by the students themselves at any level of learning, it is capable of activating the semantic sphere, launching the mechanism of «interest», comprehension. The authors conducted an empirical study using interdisciplinary methods of pedagogy and psychology: S. Jurard's self-disclosure questionnaire (modified version), psycholinguistic analysis of essays, content analysis of essay texts, statistical analysis - Student's t-test. technologies for the development of the semantic sphere of adolescents. The sample consisted of adolescents 12-15 years old (girls and boys) of secondary schools in Rostov-on-Don and the Moscow region. The novelty of this research lies in the use of the method of psycholinguistic analysis of meaning essays to assess the semantic sphere of adolescents.
Highlights
Considering the Word, according to the philosophical view of G
As the beginning of knowledge, and the internal forms of words as semantic structures, we can assume that the words spoken inside «not aloud» and clothed in a sign form on paper, turn into an echo of our emotions, feelings, experiences, affecting our value-semantic sphere
The study allowed us to draw conclusions: 1. A meaning essay is an effective meaning technique that can bring what is being studied to a personal level, a kind of ” task for meaning» that initiates the formation of meaning in students
Summary
Considering the Word, according to the philosophical view of G. A change in the educational paradigm, when the cognitive «knowledge» approach is replaced by meaningoriented learning, which considers knowledge as a reflection of something that concerns myself . These changes require researchers in the field of pedagogy to change didactic approaches to learning. In the context of E-learning, the essay ceases to be just a formal activity of a student and a method of testing knowledge for a teacher, but becomes a way of influencing the semantic sphere by activating it. Denoting the definition of «meaning essay», under this term we will mean a form of presentation of our own thoughts, different from a mini-essay, based on our personal experience, having a free structure of presentation, characterized by an internal semantic unity, initiating the development of the meaning sphere of students [1]
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