DEFINING AND APPLYING THE TERMINOLOGICAL MINIMUM IN ESP CONTEXTS

Аннотация

This article covers the issues of terminological minimum compilation for the passage of ESP lessons in non-philological universities. Teaching students the terminology minimum, which is structured in English in a particular specialty, contributes to the increase in the professional competence of students and the formation of lexical skills. The article reveals the concept of the terminological minimum, as well as the formal specifications and criteria for the formation oftheterminological minimum. Keywords: lexical minimum, terminological minimum, prescriptive and descriptive approach, glottodidactictool, selection criteria. Introduction. In order to develop a linguistic system of professional language teaching, it is important that students strictly choose the language material that will enable them to maximally activate the process of mastering the English language in relation to the chosen specialty. It is necessary to choose the most frequent lexical units, typical syntactic constructions, arrange them in a certain form, which will be the basis for easy assimilation of readers and subsequent use in active communication. All this requires consistent adherence to the printmaking in the description of language and speech materials, developing the ability to self-study on the basis of a conscious and practical method, allowing the acquired knowledge and formed skills to be actively transferred to unfamiliar language and speech materials in new conditions of real communication. In this regard, the teaching of the terminological vocabulary of the English language occupies one of the main places in the teaching of its specialty in a foreign language to students of the non-philological direction. All this suggests that the need to choose a lexical minimumis scientifically justified. Materialand methods In this article, we have used methods of description, conceptual analysis, comparison and contrast. Based ontheanalysis, theconcept is generalized and concretized. Discussionandresults Currently, the question of the choice of lexical material, taking into account the language of specialization, is the main issue in linguistics. In the works of academic N. M. Şanskiy, G. G. Gorodilova, S. G. Barkhudarov, L. G. Sayakhova, N. Z. Bakeeva, V. I. Zimin, L. N. Novikov andothers, the issues oflexical minimumselection are considered. These scientists noted that the further development of educational lexicography, the development of the theory and practice of compiling various educational dictionaries, in the first place, the development of a complex and aspect-minimumof theactive type, which is primarily aimed at thecommunicative. The concept of theterminological minimum is associated with the term "lexical minimum" in the methodology. Many methodist scientists emphasize that one of these two concepts does not differ from the other, scientist O.L.Yarashenko (2014) says that there is a partial difference between these two concepts . Although these two terms are related to one another, their https://ijmri.de/index.php/jmsi volume 4,issue7,2025 40 methodological structure, the scope of their adoption, functions and the methods of their presentation must be a clear limit. That is, according to the peculiarities of the sources of the every language units, when the general words are compared with special words-terms, it is worth considering that they can beused bypotential special occupants and differ in special features. If we analyze the reasons for the origin of these two concepts, we will see that they were not studied as a scientific concept separately, otherwise only their general characteristics were studied. The term lexical minimum appeared due to the volume of requirements of a specific educational program, the concept of a terminological minimum arose for the lack of necessary educational materials forLSP (Language for special purposes). The term "lexical minimum" is often used in educational contexts and considered as the choice of the vocabulary source in accordance with the level of learners (Lukasik, M.2017). In particular, such a lexicon is important and necessary in teaching LSP. In the lexicographical dictionary, such a definition is given: "lexical minimum-the words chosen according to the level of application and the proximity of meanings are used in the conduct of communication in the language and significant for language study purposes. Such a lexical choice focuses mainly on words that are used a lot from statistical gist, as well as stylistic neutral and have a strong semantic meaning, and such words help the learner to communicate in everyday communicative situations(Hartmann, R.R.K./G. James 2002). M. Lukasik (2018) gave a definition to the terminological minimum as a practical tool in the selection of a special lexicon intended for teaching learners of different levels of special purpose language learning (LSP) courses . Compiling a special lexical minimum in the English language is based on the tradi