MULTIMEDIA CULTURAL AND LINGUISTIC ENVIRONMENT IN LANGUAGE STUDIES AT UNIVERSITY
In this study an attempt is made to explore correlation between theoretical developments in the field of culture-oriented paradigm of foreign language teaching (FLT) and implementation of the culture-appropriateness principle of FLT via the latest didactic and instrumental approaches. Information and communication technologies (ICT) in FLT and design of the innovative multimedia educational environment at university sees a rapidly growing body of research. However, few studies examine corpora as a part of the university multimedia environment and a tool for culturally-marked vocabulary semantizaiton. Therefore, this papers' objective is to review the perspectives of designing an innovative cultural and linguistic multimedia environment for FLT at university and to advocate corpora as a tool of the culturally-marked vocabulary semantization. In connection with the study objective, the main research methods of the paper include the basic concepts analysis and current research analysis. Concept c ulture in the system of the foreign language teaching is the topic for Section 3.1. ICT in FLT and multimedia cultural and linguistic environment of university are highlighted in the Sections 3.2 and 3.3 respectively. Section 3.4 sheds light on some of corpora functions as they relate to the learning needs of culturally-marked vocabulary. The main findings of this study demonstrate that corpus research has an advantage of repeated studies on the given corpus material and verification of the results, corresponding the needs of corpus linguodidactics and the principles of culturally-marked vocabulary mastering via a process of language item semantization. In this context corpora-driven learning might be viewed as a part of organized multimedia-cultural environment and as a perspective tool for culturally-marked vocabulary semantization.