TEACHING KINSHIP TERMS TO B1 LEARNERS

Abstract

The lexical content of a language is best treated not as an aggregation of independent words or an unstructured list of words but as a collection of interrelating networks of relations between words. In the sphere of teaching specific terms like kinship terminology getting students to understand the content is stable part of success. The students’ aim to be reached in learning vocabulary process is primarily their ability to recall the word at will and to recognize it in its spoken and written form. The article describes the ways of teaching kin terms to intermediate students.