Selecting and LMS-based teaching general scientific vocabulary to would-be translators in professional communication amid COVID-19

Chernova Oxana Evgen’evna, Litvinov Aleksandr Viktirovich, Telezhko Irina Vladilenovna

The article concentrates on selecting and LMS MOODLE-based teaching general scientific vocabulary to would-be translators in professional communication amid COVID-19. The authors consider the issues of stratification and classification in science language vocabulary. The authors put forward their own classification of general scientific vocabulary based on the methodological triade by prof Nazarova T.B. and categorize all the selected vocabulary (1220 lexical items) into 12 groups. Individual words act as sampling units. The principles of selection of the general scientific vocabulary corpora are as follows: thematic, practical necessity, frequency, word combining ability, communicative value, building ability, word-formative value, and statistical neutrality. The authors have prepared a variety of exercises to teach general scientific vocabulary using resources and elements of LMS MOODLE, which allows students to learn a huge volume of lexics in a limited time span with the benefit of linguistic, preverbal and verbal exercises, increase their motivation in learning foreign languages via individualization which boosts their academic performance.

Keywords:LMS MOODLE, general scientific vocabulary, translators in professional communication, pandemic