Stylistics in teacher training setting [Articol]

Abstract

The present article investigates the role of stylistics in the teacher training setting. Drawing on the concerns of pedagogical stylistics, the study aims to demine the overall implications of stylistics on the development of students’ language awareness, text awareness, and cultural awareness. To evaluate student reactions to the practice of stylistic analysis conducted in the course of stylistics and text linguistics, a questionnaire was administered requiring respondents to choose one of the given alternatives. The items included in the survey are formulated based on the applied utility and relevance of stylistics to learning the English Language synthetized by G. Hall in the articles “Pedagogical Stylistics” and “Stylistics in Second Language Contexts: A Critical Perspective”. The questions cover two main areas of learning situations – the impact stylistics has on the acquisition of the language and on the development of students’ language awareness, i.e. gaining of knowledge and understanding of language use and language choice, and the contribution the study of stylistics exerts on the development of empirical research skills and transferable skills. Conclusions are formulated based on the overall findings from the questionnaire returns.