A digitalizált nyelvjárási atlasz mint oktatási segédlet

Abstract

The Atlas of Hungarian Dialects has long been known and used by linguists in their research;
however, in first language education at primary and secondary school its printed version is
difficult to use due to the physical weight of the boxes and the large size of the atlas sheets.
Recently, the printed atlas has also been made freely accessible in digital form — anyone can
consult it without a subscription via the digital collection of the Library and Information Centre
of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Since the dialect data in the atlas can be examined from
multiple perspectives, the material can also be used effectively in teaching dialects. The use of
the digitized atlas in the classroom is further supported by the 2020 National Core Curriculum,
which includes the development of students’ digital competencies and the introduction of digital
information resources as key objectives. Although numerous results have been produced over
the years through computer-based analyses of the atlas’s dialect data, this study presents an
example of how the original atlas, in its digitised form, can also be used in classroom teaching.