DEALING WITH MILITARY TOPICS IN ENGLISH: COMPLEMENTARY TEXTUAL INPUT TO FACILITATE THE ACQUISITION OF MILITARY TERMINOLOGY
DEALING WITH MILITARY TOPICS IN ENGLISH: COMPLEMENTARY TEXTUAL INPUT TO FACILITATE THE ACQUISITION OF MILITARY TERMINOLOGY

Summary/Abstract: This paper intends to present an alternative approach to contextualizing new military lexical content that could enhance vocabulary retention and productive retrieval by boosting motivation through an affective response from the learners. It refers to including adapted textual/video/audio input that contextualizes our learners’ L1 professional linguistic reality right from the very presentation stage of the lesson. That is, in addition to using authentic/semi-authentic materials depicting the L2 reality (e.g. the British and the American armed forces), one can deliberately use adapted input in English, describing the learners’ professional reality as a means of introducing target vocabulary. The affective reaction prompted in the learners by the tangible outcome of being able to use military terminology when discussing one’s professional reality is a strong motivational factor and conduces to more efficient long-term lexical retention.

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