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COLLOCATION IDIOMS WITH A COLOUR COMPONENT IN TEACHING STUDENTS OF CZECH LANGUAGE FOR FOREIGNERS ON THE LEVEL OF THE INDEPENDENT USER

Renee Grenarova

First published: 2022https://doi.org/10.35603/sws.iscah.2022/s11.25View metrics

Abstract

Background: Phraseology is a result of the life knowledge, folk wisdom of entire generations. It is a part of the spirit and material culture of each nation. As scientific discipline research idioms, which represents specific type of established vocabulary characterized by expressiveness, imagery and stability. Idioms have an irreplaceable place during adoption of communicative language competence, especially within its sociocultural and semantic field. Ignorance of idioms could lead to misunderstandings or incomprehension of certain communication situation among native speakers. The colors are all around us and they attract human attention for several thousand years. It is therefore logical, that color symbolism is projected in speech practice. Methods: Correct and fluent understanding is completely impossible without mastering a sufficient number of idioms, especially those, which belong to the phraseological core of the given language. First of all, we define the term collocation phrase and color, we conduct characteristics of color symbolism on example of chosen essential colors, and lastly we perform semantic analysis of selected collocation phrases with the color component in the Czech language. In the next part we focus on options of teaching the symbolism of colors in idioms as part of regular Czech language courses for foreigners according to the CEFR at the language level for an independent user. We present suggestion for possible didactic procedure – so-called phraseological five-minute plays. Results: Collocation idioms have positive influence on speech culture, emotionality and imagery of expression in both mother tongue and foreign language. Via these idioms is implemented during foreign language lessons dialogue of cultures. It is presented possibility of idioms usage with color components, such as white horse, black sheep, blue blood and others, within the process of learning the Czech language as a foreign language. Conclusions: Presentation of chosen results of the questionnaire named Colours around us, which was conducted in the April 2022. The respondents were students of the intensive Czech language course for foreigners on the Masaryk institute of advanced studies in Czech Technical University in Prague.

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Title
COLLOCATION IDIOMS WITH A COLOUR COMPONENT IN TEACHING STUDENTS OF CZECH LANGUAGE FOR FOREIGNERS ON THE LEVEL OF THE INDEPENDENT USER
Authors
Renee Grenarova
Proceedings
Proceedings of 9th SWS International Scientific Conference on Arts And Humanities - ISCAH 2022, VOL 9
Publisher
SGEM WORLD SCIENCE (SWS) Scholarly Society
Year
2022
Pages
243-250
SWS Citekey
Grenarova202226243250
ISSN
2682-9940
ISBN
978-3-903438-05-7
Language
en
Publication type
Proceedings Paper
Keywords
collocation idiomscolour componentCzech for foreignersstudent on the independent level of language
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