Features of studying the vocabulary of the English language using the corpus approach

Nizameeva Albina Marsilevna

the article discusses the features of the use of corpus technologies of text analysis in the process of studying the vocabulary of the English language at school. The object of the study is the process of studying the vocabulary of the English language in a secondary school, the subject of the study is the corpus method and the specifics of its application in the aspect of the implementation of the process under consideration. The purpose of the article is to determine the current trends in the implementation of the corpus approach in the study of the vocabulary of the English language in the middle classes of a secondary school. The following methods were used in the research process: analysis, classification, comparison, generalization, synthesis, work with linguistic text corpora, etc. In the process of working with theoretical sources, it was found that the new educational paradigm requires the search for new approaches in teaching foreign languages, one of which is "corpus technologies". The advantages of the corpus approach, from the point of view of modern linguodidactics, include: linguistic and statistical visibility; extensive search capabilities; efficiency of working with real language data. The peculiarity of the corpus approach is the possibility of an operational search for language material necessary for solving certain educational tasks in the process of teaching a foreign language. According to the results of the study, among the priority tasks of teaching English vocabulary in middle classes, the effective solution of which becomes possible thanks to the use of the corpus approach, it is possible to distinguish: the expansion of the lexical vocabulary of students, the formation of skills for determining the lexical compatibility of words in order to overcome speech errors, the development of speech through the compilation of thematic lists of keywords. At the senior stage of training, it is possible for students to collectively compile their own text corpora, which allow them to clearly illustrate the features of the lexical meaning of a particular word. An interesting technique will be the use of a comparative analysis of English contexts of word usage and variants of the functioning of the word in the contexts of the Russian language.

Keywords:corpus linguistics, language corpus, concordance, linguistic technologies, vocabulary, word semantics, methods and techniques of teaching English, context.