The teaching of terminological literacy basics to engineering students

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The article analyses the significance of the formation of students’ terminological literacy in the process of English for Specific Purposes teaching at technical university and describes the conditions providing the efficiency of this process. The author emphasizes the necessity to a create terminological thesaurus which includes the most frequent systemized specialized discipline specific vocabulary and specialized subject area word families required to professional-oriented oral and written communication and provides logically-semantic orientation in the text. The author specifies the factors assumed as a basis for terminological corpus selection, shows the procedure of thesaurus creation and describes the activities used to teach terminological literacy.

 

 Keywords: Terminological literacy, English for Specific Purposes, terminological thesaurus, specialized discipline specific vocabulary, professional-oriented oral and written communication.

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The teaching of terminological literacy basics to engineering students. (2016). Contemporary Educational Researches Journal, 5(2), 70–76. https://doi.org/10.18844/cerj.v5i2.238
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