Corpus-based Approaches in Teaching ESP Terminologies (Medical terminology)

Abstract

The paper is devoted to corpus-based approaches to teaching ESP terminologies. The most essential advantage of applying corpora in foreign language teaching is its empirical basis, constant updating, and availability of proof of using a lexical unit in different meanings. All of these factors positively affect the process of learning, stimulate students to enhance their knowledge of language, show them and teach them vital self-education skills. The given work deals with teaching ESP terminologies via monolingual and multilingual corpora, work with parallel corpora containing frequency and collocation related data.
This paper is also devoted to some theoretical considerations and practical suggestions that can be applied in any other field of teaching specialized vocabulary, since teaching specialized vocabulary/ terminology is an integral, and probably the most important, part of ESP lessons where students study English through a field that is already known and relevant to them to a certain degree – depending on their educational level.

Problems of selecting, presenting and practicing terms will be approached from both theoretical and practical points
of view. Examples and conclusions will be based on teaching ESP terminologies.
Most of the linguists and methodologists point to the following important considerations when discussing ESP teaching in general:
 differences between General English and Specialized English;
 importance of corpus-based approaches in teaching ESP terminologies
 approaches to effective learning and roles of the teacher;