TEACHING SPECIALIZED VOCABULARY COMMUNICATIVELY
TEACHING SPECIALIZED VOCABULARY COMMUNICATIVELY

Summary/Abstract: Starting from the assumption that the aim of learning a foreign language is none other than communicating in the respective language and that there is no fundamental difference between the ways in which general terminology and specialized vocabulary are acquired, this paper aims at analyzing how this communicative method could be successfully applied in the process of teaching/learning specialized vocabulary. After a brief presentation of the main principles the communicative theory is based on, we tried to exemplify some of the ways in which its methods could be successfully used in our particular case, laying special emphasis on the advantages of choosing such an approach, among which that of meeting the students’ learning needs and that of offering them the chance to become truly competent and efficient language users. In other words, they will be able to adequately convey an intelligible message to a speaker, within a larger social and situational context. As specialized vocabulary is not an aim in itself, but a means of fulfilling a communicational aim, we find that the use of such a method is not only possible, but also recommended.

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