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saxelmwifo enis swavlebis sakiTxebi:
problemebi da gamowvevebi
Issues of State Language Teaching;
Problems and Challenges
Ramaz Kurdadze
Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia
Towards the Common Rule of Forming one Type of Derivatives in the Georgian
and English Languages
ABSTRACT
The present work deals with the verb formation and typological similarities of one type of
word formation in the Georgian and English languages. The consideration of these issues
will in a way simplify the teaching of Georgian as a second language for English speaking
students.
Teaching Georgian as a second language has a long history. There are special textbooks and methodological
instructions dedicated to this direction. However, not all issues have been relevantly researched yet and
many areas of teaching Georgian grammar require further development in this respect. This becomes particularly
clear when we consider the role of foreign students’ language in the process of teaching Georgian as a
second language. Showing the typological similarities between Georgian and learner’s native language is particularly
interesting.
The issues shown in our work are related to the methods of teaching the second language. Through
providing one specific typological example the work presents the issues that should be considered by a teacher:
how to explain the theoretical material and turn it into the basis of practical exercises while teaching Georgian
as a second language.
It’s a common fact that the analysis of typological similarities is given a particular importance while
teaching the second language. The similarities demonstrated between the native language and the target language
can significantly simplify the language teaching.
Our work has been designed for English speaking students. We cover common rule of forming one type
of derivatives in Georgian as well as in English language and believe that it will clarify and simplify the comprehension
of the examples of Georgian word formation. At the same time we consider the fact that besides
the English speaking students aiming to learn practical Georgian language there are also linguist students for
whom typological analysis of the Georgian language bear a particular importance.
The subject of our analysis, the samples of word formation, are derivatives of verb origin in both English
and Georgian languages. This fact itself is very interesting in terms of teaching Georgian as the second language
since, as we have mentioned earlier, there are interesting typological similarities in the rule of processing
verb forms between Georgian and English languages.
We would like to begin the analysis of the above mentioned derivatives from the typological similarities
between Georgian and English verb forms since these derivatives are based on certain types of verb forms in
both languages.
Any language has its own principle for grouping verb forms. Despite belonging to different language
families, Georgian and English show certain typological similarities while classifying verb forms. Namely, we
have in mind the circumstance, that vowel alternation in both languages should’ve occupied the leading position
at the earlier stage of development. We mean ablaut alternation of stem vowel.
Ablaut in Georgian, like in the Indo-European languages, bears morphonological functions. It is used to
form different morphological categories; therefore this type of vowel alternation is functionally equal to affixes.
Accordingly, different stages of ablaut together with main morphemes (affixes) can be discussed as additional
morphemes to form certain morphological categories (Gamkrelidze, Machavariani, 1965, 175-179).
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