Ways to Optimize the Teaching of Professional Vocabulary at a Technological University on the Example of the English Language
The problem of improving the efficiency of vocabulary acquisition in the process of learning a foreign language at a university is one of the most relevant in modern higher education pedagogy. The article highlights the problem of assimilation of professional vocabulary by students in a technological university, and also substantiates the need for constant updating of educational material by higher education teachers due to the specifics of the subject. The authors analyzed the main methods of work on expanding the vocabulary with professional terminology and on the development of linguistic intuition when choosing the correct lexical units in oral and written speech. A special place is given to the description of tasks for the activation of the most productive word-formation models, the development of dialogic speech, analytical work with professional texts, as well as tasks involving video materials on professional topics. All the techniques described in the article were tested while working with the Information Technology Activity Book, a workbook issued on the basis of the Department of Foreign Languages of Russian Technological University and, having proved their effectiveness, are actively used in teaching students of undergraduate and graduate departments in the specialties of computer security, information technology and cybernetics.