Вестник Чувашского государственного педагогического университета им. И.Я. Яковлева

interactive tasks, English for specific purposes, vocabulary acquisition, professional and communicative competence, technical universities, ESP challenges

The article is aimed at considering different ways and possibilities of expanding the vocabulary of technical university students when learning English. English for Specific Purposes (ESP) requires special attention when selecting certain exercises to improve vocabulary in students’ speech. A sufficient number of words in speech will ensure that students of non-linguistic universities master the language perfectly in their field of work, allowing them to develop professional and communicative competence. The formation of interactive tasks concerning vocabulary in different formats (either online or offline) will permit students to memorize terminology and master the language perfectly. The textbook “ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES (ESP) FOR IT SPECIALISTS AND ENGINEERS” developed by the author of the article is used as research material. The article analyzes several types of vocabulary exercises taken from texts as a means of interactive way of teaching ESP course in technical universities. During the experiment, the effectiveness of interactive tasks was justified, since they affected various aspects of words, phrasal verbs, terminology, such as meaning, use in context, phrases with signs of syntactic and semantic integrity (collocations), and the use of all lexical units in speech. All used interactive tasks can be completed both offline and virtually by using modern technological tools.

Еремеева Азиза Рустамжоновна – старший преподаватель кафедры иностранных языков и коммуникативных технологий Национального исследовательского технологического университета «МИСИС», г. Москва, Россия; аспирант Института иностранных языков Российского университета дружбы народов имени Патриса Лумумбы, г. Москва, Россия, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4784-6575, Azi-pushok@mail.ru