CONCORDANCES AND HIGH FREQUENCY WORDS IN ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES CLASSROOM

Vocabulary acquisition in English language class is based not only on the number of words students remember but on the ability to use them in production of statements. This ability can be developed by introduction of word collocations in the classroom. Here, studying frequent terms and academic words collocations used in Microelectronics and Microelectronics application in agriculture, we demonstrate that in case of English for Specific Purposes this task is much harder, as different scientific and occupational areas can produce uncommon for everyday English collocations and new variety of word patterns. The research is based on papers from scientific journals and books dealing with the fast developing branch of semiconductors, semiconducting materials and their practical use in fabrication of microelectronic devices. The list of highlighted frequent collocations was used to develop texts and corresponding to them tasks including gap filling, word matching. The next step was to prepare texts, in which students could find collocations and form the list of collocations with high frequency academic words on their own as self-study. The presented here approach aims at the formation of lexical competence based on the academic word and term acquisition and their adequate to native speakers use within the occupational areas.