Technical Vocabulary: How Is it Learned? How Is it Taught?
Technical Vocabulary: How Is it Learned? How Is it Taught?

Summary/Abstract: The technical vocabulary is regarded by the technical student as more difficult than the general one due to its abstractness. The present article focuses on a few particularities of learning and teaching technical terms since this is an important part of professional communication. Divided into four parts, it presents the way in which the technical student learns and acquires the new specialized vocabulary, the strategies he uses, how he copes with the challenges of a reading assignment. From a different perspective, there is the teacher who must be fully aware of the way in which the student learns so that he can choose the best strategies and the proper time to teach this type of vocabulary. The teacher must encourage, support the students in their effort to improve the acquiring of knew specialized vocabulary by making them aware of the possible strategies they could use.

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