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Developing Learning And Cognitive Competence Through Mythologem Interpreting

2019; Linguagem: Inglês

10.15405/epsbs.2019.12.16

2357-1330

Vera N. Varlamova, Daria S. Alexandrova,

Innovations in Education and Learning Technologies

The article concentrates on the study of developing learning and cognitive competence in students of language specialties through interpreting mythologem in fictional texts. The interaction of the information potential of mythologem and the information space of a literary text is investigated. The main models of mythological frames and ways of their actualization in the texts of English-language fictional prose are considered. Working with information field of myth students should rely on the structure of myth. The excerpts for analysis are chosen in the way as to show students how to interpret different fictional texts at upper and peripheral levels of the mythological frame. At the upper level the myth is associated with the conceptual design of the author in full. At the peripheral level the myth gives additional characteristics of the heroes and performs an aesthetic subtask. Examples of the analysis of excerpts from fictional texts show the possibility of developing cognitive abilities in the process of mythologem interpreting. Cognitive activity on mythologem analysis allows students to see the underlying content of a literary work, as well as to understand and decode the authors intention. The relevance of the research consists in the need to further study the information potential of mythologem and its role in the development of learning and cognitive competence.