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Challenges For Vocabulary in ESP

ESP vocabulary is difficult for non-native English speakers to learn, as these terms are low frequency words not shared across languages. Vocabulary acquisition occurs incrementally over time with repeated exposure. Identifying ESP vocabulary is challenging as everyday words take on specialized meanings. ESP courses often focus more on structure and grammar than specialized vocabulary. Students struggle to cope with technical vocabulary even after completing basic English courses. Effective techniques for building ESP vocabulary include frequent exposure, numerous exposures to words, dividing material into topics, translation, matching exercises, categorization, multiple choice, gap filling, and creative tasks.

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Challenges For Vocabulary in ESP

ESP vocabulary is difficult for non-native English speakers to learn, as these terms are low frequency words not shared across languages. Vocabulary acquisition occurs incrementally over time with repeated exposure. Identifying ESP vocabulary is challenging as everyday words take on specialized meanings. ESP courses often focus more on structure and grammar than specialized vocabulary. Students struggle to cope with technical vocabulary even after completing basic English courses. Effective techniques for building ESP vocabulary include frequent exposure, numerous exposures to words, dividing material into topics, translation, matching exercises, categorization, multiple choice, gap filling, and creative tasks.

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challenges for vocabulary in

ESP
ESP vocabulary always presents a major linguistic obstacle to nonnative English-speaking
students. It is difficult to learn words in general, especially those ESP terms which are not
the same in all languages, because they are low frequency words and are not
encountered very often. Vocabulary acquisition is incremental in nature and this means
that words are not learned instantaneously but they are learned over a period of time
.
• Identifying Vocabulary For ESP:

• One difficulty with identifying vocabulary for ESP is what to do with every day
words that take on a particular meaning in a specialized context.
• concentration of ESP courses;

• The ESP courses concentrate on structure and grammar rather


• than specialized vocabulary.
Teaching Hours:
• The teaching hours devoted to ESP courses are not enough for
students to learn the ESP courses teaching hours should be increased
to enable the ESP teachers to complete the ESP courses.
• Coping with Specialized Vocabulary:
• Students learning English but they are not able to cope with
specialized vocabulary. Even some students who already have
completed basic courses in English are not able to cope with
specialized vocabulary.
Techniques for Vocabulary Building;
• There are countless techniques that help in improving vocabulary;
• Bringing special vocabulary into the classroom;
• The purpose and methods of any corpus study need to be clear to
teachers before they bring research findings into the classroom.
• Applying ineffective strategies;

• Maximum Exposure;
• continuous exposure to the specialized vocabulary is key because
students do not normally revise their lessons at home.
Techniques;
• Numerous Exposures To A Particular Word;
• The number of words learned depends on numerous exposures to a
particular word.
• Devide Teaching Material Into Certain Topics;
• Teacher should devide his teaching material into certain topics,
specific to the students field.
Techniques
• Translation;
• Translation is a global exercise that helps with spelling, usage,
accurate equivalence of technical terms, practice of high_frequency
words(articles, prepositions, pronouns etc.), grammar, or word order.
Techniques;
• Matching exercises:
• match the word to its definition.
• match the term with opposites/synonyms, match the term to the
picture/symbol/diagram/abbreviation,
• match collocations (two terms that go together)
• Categorization of words;
• putting the lexical items into different categories.
Techniques;
• multiple choice;
• learners are proposed to choose the correct word
• Gap-filling exercises;
• Gap-filling exercises, used not only in practice but also in revision
stages. They are open gap-fills or students can choose from the given
words
• creation tasks;
• In the creation tasks the students use the new terms in a sentence or
a story, in writing, speaking or in both forms

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