TEACHING SPECIAL LEXIS USING AUTHENTIC CORPORATE INTERNET RESOURCES

Using authentic corporate foreign language Internet resources in teaching professional intercultural communication permits to include in the educational process modern authentic texts, audio and video material, that meet students` professional and academic needs. The paper considers corporate Internet resources in the context of teaching language for special purposes; it focuses on the facilities of teaching special lexis through applying corporate Internet resources. The ability to communicate in a professional sphere implicates mastering professional lexis. Thus, active and passive vocabulary in a special field is necessary both for reading scientific literature, manuals, and other foreign language documentation and acquaintance with websites content and resources of social media companies, conferences, special shows and exhibitions in the special sphere (including audio and video), acquaintance with the information on the web pages and resources of social media that deal with students` further education opportunities in foreign educational institutions according to the course, as well as for professional communication via information and communication technology. Particularities of using special lexis concerning terminological frequency of professional and academic vocabulary in various resources, formal and informal style of communication, genres used, opportunities for communication in general on the examples of English and German corporate Internet resources of various types (websites, blogs, social networks and services) have been analyzed. The paper represents the complex of interactive tasks created via the utilizing of authentic corporate Internet resources of different types - technical universities websites, blogs, social networks, special exhibitions and conferences websites etc. The classification of assignments for teaching reading, writing, listening and various aspects of the target language is presented. The paper focuses on the tasks development features taking into account the difficulties that might face the students while learning professional and academic terminology. The interactive training and assessment tasks based on the authentic materials considered and developed through Novosibirsk State Technical University software program called “eLang” are exemplified.

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