Formation of the value attitude to the Word on Language Arts lessons

Abstract. Each teacher follows several purposes in his/her work: transmission of subject knowledge, cognitive development of students, formation of meta-subject skills, moral education of pupils. The latter involves the formation of the value sphere of the personality. The article reveals the importance of lessons of Russian language and Literature in the formation of the most important axiological concepts, being one of the components of the value sphere.
The systematic lexical, etymological work on words, activities on the image of the word, performance of lexical-semantic, lexical-phraseological, structural-semantic exercises reveal the meaning of moral concepts to pupils being valuable notions. These forms of work are really effective on Language Art lessons.
This article presents one of those lessons. The lesson «The northern charmer» was devoted to the famous Arkhangelsk story-teller S. G. Pisakhov and the analysis of his tale «Frosted songs». Тhe article describes the implemented methods of word-stylistic work and word drawing in class. The role in the formation of value orientations of the students’ personality is described. These forms of work turn the word that pupils analyze into an axiological concept on all Language Art lesson. In parallel it allows to educate students’ attitude toward the word as a value.
According to the author of this article, the artistic word is an object of the analysis and a means of forming the axiological sphere of pupils’ personality on Language Arts lessons simultaneously. These lessons, along with the concepts «Motherland», «family», «love», «creativity», organically introduce the Word itself into the axiological system of the schoolchildren and help them realize it as a value.

Keywords: value concepts, system of values, Word, Language Arts lesson, lexical analysis, stylistic analysis, word drawing.