The Most Important Issues in the Development of the Potential Student Vocabulary at a Higher Non-Philological School

• Main Author: Liudmila Mauzienė
• Format: Article
• Language: deu
• Published: Vilnius Gediminas Technical University 2011-04-01
• Series: Coactivity: Philology, Educology
• Subjects: potential vocabulary; compound words and derivatives; word valence; language idea; structuralsemantic analysis of the word
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/1822-430X.2009.17.4.38-43

It is emphasized in the article that in order to understand various texts correctly, it is necessary to know a certain quantity of words and the main grammar rules and to have the skills necessary to process the information conveyed in a meaningful text. The research carried out by linguists and methodologists has demonstrated that neither secondary, nor higher non-philological school teaches the necessary lexis amount. According to the author, this problem may be solved by formation of the potential vocabulary. There are both linguistic and methodical presumptions, like: linguistic-formation of words, and methodical-transformation of unknown words into equivalent word combinations and analysis of the word formation. This article may be useful for lecturers-practitioners and methodologists-theoreticians.