The concept “military/armed conflict” in terms of foreign language teaching methods

Abstract

Armed conflicts occurring in the world should be analyzed from different points of view including linguistic understanding of the concept “military/armed conflict”. The objective of the study is to find the ways to develop university students’ skills to model the concept “military/armed conflict”. The process of teaching students to construct the concept involves three stages: 1) shaping the topical sphere of the concept with the help of scientometric analysis of journal articles and media texts; 2) demonstrating the procedure of concept modelling; 3) collecting the lexical units from media texts, analyzing their meanings for making concept model; comparing the structure and the content of German and Russian concepts. The scientometric method implied to the concept analysis allows figuring out the most general topics connected with the concept. Political issues, international relations, society, education, religion, health and medical problems, history, security are the most frequent general topics connected with the concept under study. The continuous sampling method is used to select and collect the language means related to the concept “military/armed conflict”. To construct the concept the modelling method is employed. In the concept structure the core, semicore and peripheral zones are distinguished.