Plurilingual Approach to Improving Lexical Competence of Non-Linguistic Majoring Students

¹ State University of Economics and Technology, Kryviy Rih 50000, Ukraine
² Kryviy Rih Donetsk Law Institute of Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Kryviy Rih, 50000, Ukraine
³ Association of Silk Road Universities and Consulting companies, Almaty, Kazakhstan

^* Corresponding author: irinabazarenko@gmail.com

Abstract

This paper presents innovative approaches to improving lexical competence of non-linguistic students. The authors analyze the concept of terminological vocabulary in professional discourse, paying special attention to peculiarities of teaching vocational-oriented vocabulary to non-linguistic majoring students. Pedagogical technologies based on plurilingual approach in teaching professionally oriented vocabulary are offered in this article. The authors disclose the main features of acquiring professionally oriented vocabulary in distance learning and its effect on the learning process. Furthermore, the best practices for the English-German-French combination are explored in teaching non-linguistic students professionnally oriented vocabulary from a plurilingual and communicative perspective. The findings also show that these activities not only motivate learners to be engaged in meaningful language learning experience, but also encourage them to improve their plurilingual communicative competence, therefore enrich their professionnally oriented vocabulary. The focus lies on exploring the use of plurilingual approach as an effective means for improving professional linguistic competence. Recommendations for teachers and non-linguistic students on mastering their professionnally oriented vocabulary are presented in this paper.