ESP in Classes of Science

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·       1. English for chemists is the part of subset of ESP known as English for sciences. The limited subset of language and functions required in a certain ESP setting is referred to as microlanguage.

·      2. The basic ways of arranging the lexis are oriented on the systemic relations and, eventually, on the main targets of classifying the lexemes. This systematization results in thematic dictionaries. Thus, the problem of systematization and presentation remains a current issue.

·      3. The development of conceptual linguistics opens a new scope in arranging sematic vocabulary for teaching purposes. Such vocabularies are called frame-based vocabularies.

·      4. ESP is such an approach to learning English, which is based on learners’ needs, lacks and wants, and the students should know why they need to learn the foreign language.

·      5. After the intensive reading and learning the text about the nature of ceramics and its necessity in al branches of modern industry, we can connect it with some vital ecological problems. With the help of the pre-basic vocabulary including standard lexis such as air pollution, industrial emissions, civilization, scientific and technological progress, influence, environment, natural resources, disbalance, etc., there will be an interesting and hot discussion between the students expressing different points of view. These kind of discussions are very important, for they enrich the vocabulary.

·        6. Thus, the optimization in the presentation of ESP for Sciences, Chemistry in particular, is seen in the present article in a situational presentation of language material, namely frame-based vocabulary. The specific nature of chemistry language imposes the necessity to widen the thematic vocabulary and includes contingent areas such as environmental problems, ecology, climate, recycling, volcanic eruptions, animal extinction and so on.

·        7. Laying special accent on the importance of the integration in teaching ESP for Sciences S. Krashen states, “language is best taught when it is being used to transmit messages, not when it it explicitly taught for conscious learning”.

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