TEACHING E-COMMERCE TERMINOLOGY BY CREATING ELECTRONIC CORPORA
TEACHING E-COMMERCE TERMINOLOGY BY CREATING ELECTRONIC CORPORA

Summary/Abstract: In this paper we emphasize the fact that teaching e-commerce terminology is not an easydoing task, taking into account that terminology is an interdisciplinary science that deals with the classification and standardisation of the specialised vocabulary, by giving relevant information in a technical-scientific framework. The major goal of this science is to enforce the terms and describe them according to proper and current communicative situations, using electronic corpora and then applying the methods of linguistics (the linguistic description of terms). Nowadays, teaching new, emerging terminologies by creating an electronic corpus has been strengthened at an international level. Teaching e-commerce terminology can be very challenging for teachers and students: on the one hand, it cannot be achieved without the linguistic analysis of the terms, but on the other hand students become more and more interested in the new terminological trends base don the creation of electronic corpora. Furthermore, e-commerce terminology becomes functional if the teaching process is also based on a tight collaboration between teachers and e-commerce experts, helping teachers to present and explain e-commerce terms in a vulgarised manner. Teachers, in their turn, manage to find suitable teaching methods, after the creation of the electronic corpus in order to enhance the students’ knowledge in an interdisciplinary approach. Thus, teaching is productive after the linguistic analysis of e-commerce terms and the functional degree of certain terms is relevant in various fields: economics, marketing, information technology.

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