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SMALL RESEARCH FOR VOCABULARY INSTRUCTION ARTS
SMALL RESEARCH FOR VOCABULARY INSTRUCTION ARTS

Author(s): Violeta Negrea
Subject(s): Language studies, Foreign languages learning, Applied Linguistics, Semantics, Philosophy of Language
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: English for specific purposes instruction; language philosophy; communicative and functional didactics; ESP contextualization; applied linguistics small research;

Summary/Abstract: The outset of “knowledge society” concept (Drucker, 1969) opened way to the small research type of approach to develop local academic innovative instruction practices. Our article aims to add small research arguments to engage scholarship in English for Specific Purposes instruction arts with theoretical and practice support. We focus on the semantics of technical vocabulary as a means of language instruction for finance, banking, stock exchange and insurance. The account brings in language philosophy argument to support instrumentality and appropriateness to its domain of application. The conclusion of our article falls on the pragmatic potentiality of small research to develop theoretical and practical knowledge that can be integrated into pioneering insights of applied language instruction.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 68-73
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: English