What is narrative perspective in Vietnam? How to identify narrative perspective? What are contents of Vietnamese Language knowledge for grade 6 students in Vietnam?

What is a Narrative Perspective? How to Identify a Narrative Perspective?

The narrative perspective is the communicative stance that the storyteller uses when recounting a story. The choice of perspective determines how the story is conveyed to the reader or listener and significantly affects their perception of the story.

In literature, there are 3 narrative perspectives, identified as follows:

1. First-Person Narrative:

- Characteristics: The narrator uses "tôi"or "chúng tôi" to recount the story from their own viewpoint.

- Identification Method: When reading, you will notice the narrator using the pronouns "tôi"or "we." For example: "Tôi đã nhìn thấy điều đó" and "Chúng tôi đã trải qua những ngày tháng khó khăn."

- Effect: Creates a sense of closeness, authenticity, and high personal relevance, aiding readers to empathize easily with the main character.

2. Second-Person Narrative:

- Characteristics: The narrator uses the pronoun "bạn" to narrate, creating the feeling of speaking directly to the reader.

- Identification Method: When reading, you notice the narrator using the pronoun "bạn". For example: Bạn sẽ cảm thấy như thế nào nếu điều đó xảy ra với bạn?"

- Effect: Creates a sense of closeness, authenticity, and high personal relevance, aiding readers to empathize easily with the main character.

3. Third-Person Narrative:

- Characteristics: The narrator stands outside the story, using character names or pronouns like "anh", "cô", "họ" to recount events.

- Identification Method: When reading, you will notice the narrator using character names or pronouns like "anh", "cô", "họ". For example: "He decided to leave the village" or "The girl ran quickly home."

- Effect: Provides an overview and comprehensive look at events and characters, making the story objective and rich.

Examples:

- First-Person Narrative:

Work: "Nhật ký Đặng Thùy Trâm" by Dang Thuy Tram: I lived through the most difficult days of my life on the battlefield, but they were also the most memorable days.

- Second-Person Narrative:

Work: "Nếu một đêm đông có người lữ khách" by Italo Calvino: You are sitting in a quiet room, holding this book and starting to read. You feel as if you are stepping into another world.

- Third-Person Narrative:

Work: "Chí Phèo by Nam Cao: Chi Pheo returned to Vu Dai village after many years in prison. He was no longer the Chi Pheo of the past, but a completely different person.

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What are contents of Vietnamese Language knowledge for grade 6 students in Vietnam?​

According to the General Education Program for the subject of Literature issued with Circular 32/2018/TT-BGDDT, the content of Grade 6 Vietnamese language knowledge is as follows:

1.1. Simple words and compound words, compound words and reduplicative words

1.2. Polysemous words and homonyms

1.3. Meanings of some common idioms

1.4. Meanings of some common Sino-Vietnamese elements (e.g., bất, phi) and the meanings of words containing those Sino-Vietnamese elements (e.g., bất công, bất đồng, phi nghĩa, phi lí)

2.1. The main components of sentences: expanding the main components of sentences using phrases

2.2. Adverbials: characteristics, linking functions in sentences

2.3. Use of semicolons (to mark boundaries between components in a complex enumeration); quotation marks (to indicate understanding of a term not in its usual sense)

3.1. Rhetorical devices of metaphor, metonymy: characteristics and effects

3.2. Paragraphs and texts: characteristics and functions

3.3. Choosing words and some sentence structures suitable for expressing the meaning of a text

3.4. Text types and genres:

- Narrative text: an essay recounting a personal experience, an essay retelling a folk tale

- Descriptive text: an essay describing a scene of activity

- Expressive text: six-eight poem; paragraph recording emotions when reading a six-eight poem

- Argumentative text: opinions, reasoning, evidence; an essay presenting viewpoints about a phenomenon in study or life

- Informative text: title, subtitle, headings, bold text, ordinal numbers and bullet points; explanatory texts recounting an event; recorded notes about an incident or a meeting, discussion

4.1. The development of language: the phenomenon of borrowing words, borrowed words, usage of borrowed words

4.2. Non-verbal communication means: images, statistics

What are contents of Vietnamese Language knowledge for grade 6 students in Vietnam?​

According to the General Education Program for the subject of Literature issued with Circular 32/2018/TT-BGDDT, the literary knowledge covered in Grade 6 includes:

1.1. The expressiveness of literary texts

1.2. Details and the relationship between details in literary texts

1.3. Themes, topics of the texts; emotions, feelings of the writer

2.1. Elements: plot, character, narrator's dialogue and characters' dialogue in legends, fairy tales, allegories

2.2. First-person and third-person narrators

2.3. Formal elements of six-eight poetry: number of syllables, lines, rhyme, rhythm

2.4. Title, line of poetry, stanza, rhyme, rhythm, language, and the effects of these elements in a poem

2.5. Elements of narrative, description in poetry

2.6. Writing style, storytelling of events, first-person narrator in memoirs or travelogues