| dc.description.abstract | The article is the result of the author’s several years of experience as lecturer at the first year of Russian Philology at the Teachers’ Training College in Cracov. It consists of the following parts: (1) an analysis of the
written entrance examinations at the Department of Russian Philology; (2) reflections on the reasons why these papers do not attain a sussiciently high level; (3) suggestions for improvement of this low standard of written papers, classes in writting, and the methods of teaching.
The analysis of the examination papers has permitted to establish the reasons of their inadequate level. These are: (1) an insufficient knowledge of the phonematic-morphological principle upon which Russian spelling is based; (3) the interference of the Polish language; (3) an inadequate automatization of correct—writing habits.
In view of the absence of detailed curricula for schools of higher education, and of suitable textbooks to conduct Russian language classes, the author was induced to look for ways of improvement on her own.
The first step towards eliminating the above-listed reasons was to draw an appropriate working plan, the author having taken into special account these parts of the material where the effect of the interference of Polish was particularly keenly felt. The students were told to start special note-books for copperplate writing, for rule-inscription, for exercises of different kind, from copying to composition writing. A number of special classes was initiated where the committed mistakes were corrected and explained, tables with more difficult orthograms were drawn, etc.
These measures undertaken chiefly to make the students learn in a conscious manner the principles of spelling, and combined with speaking exercises on a lexical basis with which the students were familiar thanks to their secondary -school Russian lessons, has enabled the author to introduce already during the second term some simple compositions on subjects pertaining to everyday life. The compositions were of a sufficiently high standard to prove that the different spelling exercises can actually high a great help in teaching the student to express himself in writing. | en_EN |
