CORPUS-BASED APPROACHES TO VOCABULARY TEACHING IN ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES

Abstract

English for Specific Purposes (ESP) has become increasingly important   in higher education due to its expanding position as an international language                 of academic and professional communication. The efficient selection and teaching          of specialized vocabulary pertinent to specific professional fields is one of the fundamental issues in ESP instruction. Conventional approaches to teaching vocabulary may not accurately reflect real-world language use in professional settings since they frequently rely on intuition or generic teaching resources. A strong methodological foundation for examining actual language data and locating lexical patterns in real texts   is offered by corpus linguistics. The potential of corpus-based methods to enhance vocabulary instruction in ESP courses is examined in this paper. The study examines the pedagogical consequences of analyzing lexical frequency and collocational patterns       in professional texts for ESP education. The results show that corpus-based vocabulary analysis can greatly improve language instruction's efficacy and help students become more proficient communicators.