Compiling a professionally oriented glossary as a form of students’ self-education activity in non-linguistic higher education institutions

Abstract

Mastering a professional foreign language is impossible without mastering special vocabulary. The higher the level of language formation and speech lexical skills, the more successful the specialist will be in the implementation of the tasks assigned to him in a foreign language. This article considers such type of organizing students’ independent work activities as compiling a glossary, or thematic dictionary. The main advantages of this type of work are described, and the motivational potential is revealed in the process of mastering professionally-oriented lexical material by students. The author gives the examples of compiling different sorts of glossaries and methods of using them, which expand their opportunities as the extracurricular kind of activity, and reveals their motivational capability for students’ active learning.