Teaching Lexical Material with Cultural Depth: The Use of Proverbs in English Instruction

Abstract

In ancient Spartan education, teaching foreign words was considered useful for the general development of the child. Intensive teaching of lexical material to students is still one of the problems that need to be explored. In order to properly develop a student’s speech, it is necessary to teach him lexical material. Lexis is the basis of language, without which speech is unthinkable. The lexicon of the language is closely related to grammar and phonetics. One of them complements the other. Lexical material intensifies language activity, reading and writing, and on its basis the student conveys his idea to another. Explaining new words, the teacher should not be satisfied with using the words in separate sentences. Because students can already find sentences containing new words in the textbook and can freely write the sentences on the board themselves. At this time, the teacher should visually direct the students' attention to the cards with proverbs and sayings containing new words.