FRAME-BASED APPROACH TO LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
The frame analysis gives the chance of explaining the language phenomena from the point of view of cognitive linguistics, while investigating semantics of lexical innovations, this analysis has an interdisciplinary character. All the advantages of frame modeling are also clear concerning the procedure of creation and comprehension of texts in a foreign language. The texts of a definite subject and genre are constructed according to the certain rules, schemes and models. The discourse is understood “as a set of thematically correlated texts: the texts united in the discourse, are turned to one general subject”. Having studied the structure of the frame of a certain discourse, it is possible to reveal the main semantic units, correlations between them, to make a list of the necessary semantic parts of the text and to define semantic interrelations of various levels. Having constructed the text according to such frame structures and semantic correlations between them, the students will be able to reveal the problem, having included the necessary information on the chosen subject. The frame approach allows to consider both national and cultural components at selecting and using the foreign-language lexicon. The frame approach gives the opportunity to unite lexicon into thematic groups. The use of this way of grouping the words keeps the semantic relations between the components which the students comprehend with the major meaning of the lexical units and can easily restore them according to this substructure of a frame. Reflecting the general conceptual structures, recreating stereotypic ideas of a certain cultural community about the objects and the phenomena, the frame approach has a number of advantages being used in the course of training a foreign language.