ENHANCING REGISTERS AND STYLES: GRAMMATICAL DIMENSION

Abstract

This study explores the issue of acquiring stylistic grammar by University
students – teacher-trainees. The results of the observation made it possible to arrive
at the conclusion about the expedience of teaching stylistic grammar to junior
students of language schools, but with different levels of stylistic loading. With this
in mind, a corresponding methodology is designed, which incorporates a system
of stylistically oriented activities. They embrace non-communicative receptive,
quasi-communicative receptive-reproductive and communicative productive
exercises to be employed in the English classroom. It is maintained that the
employment of the proposed system of activities begins in the junior years and
continues through the University course in order to obtain expected learning
outcomes.
Key words: stylistic grammar; foreign language stylistic competence;
registers and styles of communication; register and style switches; mixture and
variation of registers and styles; stylistic fields; synonymous linguistic variation;
stages of learning; system of stylistically oriented activities.