COMPILING LEXICAL MINIMUMS ON TOPICS AS AN EFFECTIVE METHOD FOR DEVELOPING PROFESSIONAL LEXICAL COMPETENCE

Abstract

The article is dedicated to a problem of expanding the professional vocabulary of foreign language learners (on the example of graduate students) through the creation of lexical minimums on professionally oriented topics. The article discusses Russian national and foreign approaches to compiling thematic dictionaries and glossaries. The specificity of compiling such lexical minimums lies in the fact that at the stage of building a vocabulary base, lexical units selected according to certain principles are combined into topics. The article reveals goals, principles of selection and stages of work of students in compiling lexical minimums on current topics. The author concludes that the method of compiling lexical minimums on current political and economic topics and events in the process of learning a professional oriented foreign language by postgraduate students has demonstrated its effectiveness and can be used in the practice of developing lexical skills.