Teaching Professional Vocabulary Using the Content of Massive Open Online Courses
The number of massive open online courses in various languages is constantly increasing, which has become of interest in learning a foreign language at a university. The aim of the study is to examine the possibilities of teaching students professional vocabulary on the material of massive open online courses. The research materials are the English-language massive open online course, modern textbooks of domestic and foreign authors, on the example of which, using the methods of corpus analysis, the features of the use of professional vocabulary are studied. Examples of interactive language exercises which were developed using corpus linguistic tools based on materials from an online course in the specialized e Lang software system are shown. The use of foreign-language massive open online courses in learning professional vocabulary allows to complement the learning process with relevant authentic materials that meet the needs of university students.