Avrasya Uluslararası Araştırmalar Dergisi

Öz

Language is a system that enables the transmission of thoughts and emotions. At the core of this system lies the sentence, which makes it possible to form meaningful expressions. The sentence is the fundamental building block of syntax. The structural schema of a sentence is regarded by many linguists as a primary element of a simple sentence. This schema is conceptualized as an abstract framework illustrating how language is organized within a specific structure and how an independent sentence is constructed. Components of the structural schema represent grammatical categories within the sentence, such as predicate, mood, tense, and person. These elements play a significant role in determining the grammatical and semantic structure of the sentence. Teaching the structural schema of sentences facilitates language learning by enhancing individuals' understanding of grammatical rules and substantially improving overall language proficiency. In this context, the aim of this study is to analyze the approaches developed by renowned Russian linguists Nataliya Yulyevna Shvedova and Vera Arsenyevna Belosapkova on the schema of simple sentences. We will also present our ideas and suggestions for teaching the structural schema of simple sentences to learners of Russian as a foreign language. The analysis material comprises sentence models based on Shvedova and Belosapkova’s structural schema of simple sentences. A descriptive and comparative method has been employed in this study. The study aims to provide a general understanding of the schema of simple sentences in the Russian language, facilitate learning of the basic sentence models that constitute a minimal sentence, and emphasize the structural and semantic aspects of the sentence.