STAGES AND SUBSYSTEM OF EXERCISES FOR BUILDING LEXICAL COMPETENCE IN ENGLISH PROFESSIONALLY ORIENTED ORAL COMMUNICATION OF PROSPECTIVE ECOLOGISTS

Abstract

The article is devoted to a topical issue in teaching methods of German languages, namely substantiation of the stages and elaboration of the subsystem of exercises for building lexical competence in English professionally oriented oral communication of prospective ecologists. The aim of the article is to substantiate the stages and elaborate the subsystem of the exercises building lexical competence in English professionally oriented oral communication of prospective ecologists. An array of methods has been used in the research: an analysis of the investigations made by Ukrainian and foreign researches; generalization, systematization with an aim of finding out how the issue is being developed, defining the stages of building lexical competence in English professionally oriented oral communication of prospective ecologists; classification with an aim of elaborating the subsystem of exercises for building lexical competence in English professionally oriented oral communication of prospective ecologists. It has been proved that efficient organization of building lexical competence requires the substantiation of learning stages and elaboration of corresponding subsystem of exercise. The stages of building lexical competence in English professionally oriented oral communication of prospective ecologists include: introduction, automatization and production. During the introduction students get to know with the meanings of lexical units, terms, and its peculiarities of usage, do exercises in identification and semantization of lexical units, During automatization students do exercises acquiring forms and meanings of lexical units, the way collocations are made following typical speech samples. During production students develop abilities to produce lexical units, terms, clichés and skills to use thematic and terminology vocabulary in their speeches, The elaborated subsystem of exercises is presented by five groups of exercises: a group of exercises in vocabulary introduction, a group of exercises in vocabulary semantization, a group of exercises to furnish dialogical and monological unites with lexical units, a group of exercises to furnish dialogical and monological speeches of above phrase level with lexical units, a group of exercises to furnish dialogical and monological speeches of text level with lexical units, and a number of subgroups of exercises.