LINGUISTIC CORPUS TEACHING METHODOLOGY IN THE STUDY OF COLOUR TERMS TO INCREASE STUDENTS’ LANGUAGE COMPETENCES

Abstract

This study examines the influence of linguistic corpus on teaching methodology by analysing the semantics of the colour ‘brown’ in Russian and Kazakh among undergraduate students of al-Farabi Kazakh National University (KazNU). The aim of the research paper is to analyse the semantics of the colour ‘brown’ in Russian and Kazakh languages using corpus and focus on grammatical, linguistic, pragmatic, speech and communicative competences. The semantics of a colour ‘brown’ in Russian and Kazakh languages have been analysed via two corpora, the National Corpus of Russian (NCRL) and Kazakh (NCKL). The results of the analysis revealed that the semantic structure of brown in Kazakh language prevails than in Russian. There are less concordances with the colour brown in Russian and the majority of them are used to describe objects or animals, while in Kazakh there are more hidden-expressive meanings that require further analysis. When studying the syntax section to search for phrases in the corpus in order to create a list of words, students have focused on grammatical, linguistic, pragmatic, speech and communicative competences. The positive impact of the corpus study is evidenced by the expansion of vocabulary, contributing to the development of students' communicative skills. Students have retrieved collocations within the context and have created a wordlist with the colour brown in both languages. In the end, students’ motivation to study and analyse texts has been raised due to use of new technologies.