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Lexicology: theory and application

Class at Faculty of Education |
OIBA3A054A

Annotation

The main aim of the course is to broaden the knowledge of the basic principles of word-formation and improve the skills of practical application on a scale of different registers and contextual use. The course also focuses on developing relevant vocabulary knowledge particularly in the field of collocations, phraseology and idioms.

Topic 1: Key terminology and word-formation principles; Basic methodological aspects of vocabulary teaching

Topic 2: Characteristics of major and minor word-formation processes and their application

Topic 3: Stylistic stratification of vocabulary and its contextual use from the synchronic perspective

Topic 4: Systemic and textual collocations in theory and practice; Language corpus

Topic 5: English phraseology and idioms and relevant didactic implications

Topic 6: Lexicography in the study and teaching of English lexis