Using the Poetic Corpus of Abay for the Quality Training of Philologists

Abstract

In the context of the digital transformation of education and the need to train highly qualified teaching staff capable of integrating humanitarian knowledge with modern technologies, the use of digital corpora of texts in the educational process is particularly relevant. One of the promising tools in this area is a poetic corpus created based on the works of Abai Kunanbayev, a key figure in Kazakh literature and philosophical thought. This article examines the concept, structure and methodological capabilities of a small poetic corpus of Abai's poetry in the context of training future philology teachers. The emphasis is on the interdisciplinary and applied significance of the corpus approach for mastering philological disciplines, forming analytical, interpretive and digital competencies, as well as a deeper immersion in the national literary and cultural heritage. The creation of the corpus includes the stages of collecting, digitizing, linguistic markup and annotating poetic texts. Such a corpus may include original texts in Kazakh, translations into Russian, subject tags, frequency dictionary, morphological and syntactic markups, which provides ample opportunities for complex text analysis. Particular attention is paid to the construction of the corpus taking into account the methodological requirements of corpus linguistics and pedagogical applicability within the framework of university programs. One of the central theses of the article is the assertion that working with the corpus of Abai's poetry allows implementing the principle of "learning through research", involving students in project and research activities. Students learn to work with digital texts, formulate hypotheses, perform quantitative and qualitative analysis of vocabulary, semantics and stylistics. This, in turn, contributes to the development of the most important professional qualities in future teachers: analytical thinking, linguistic intuition, understanding of the cultural context and the ability to work with large volumes of text.