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“Inert” Metaphorical Shortages of Constructivist Theory of Learning

Author(s): Wojciech Gorczyca
Subject(s): Foreign languages learning
Published by: Uniwersytet Opolski
Keywords: Propositional model; mental model; surface structure; deep structure; metaphor in absentia

Summary/Abstract: The author of the article disputes with basic foundations of constructivist theory of learning. The polemics especially refers to dychotomic understanding of information processing ( first what was said, then what was intended) by the constructivist theorists of glottodidactics. According to the author, consensual , which means constructivist blending of proposotional model ( what was said) with mental model (what was intended) recalls the conception od surface and deep structures by Noam Chomsky and can not be applied in glottodidactically profiled analysis and interpretation of a poetic text including metaphor in absentia. The exemplifying material, which boosters author’s conclusions, is his intepretation of the poem by Joseph Brodsky with incipit Dieriewiannyj łaokoon … with a proposition of glottodidactic solutions in the background.

  • Issue Year: 17/2013
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 73-80
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Polish