Author: Kadirbekova, Durdona

Annotation: English for specific purposes (ESP) teachers often face dilemmas in deciding what lexical items to teach their students. In the field of ICT, there is no exception to this issue. The ICT corpus made up of research articles can provide better insights and guide to both ICT students and teachers. In EFL contexts, English for specific purposes often has great significance for learners, mainly due to its multi-disciplinary nature, and for advanced learners, collocations are especially important. As Özdemir (2014) notes, concordance lines allow us to observe potential specialized collocations. For example, collocations identified from ESP corpora have served to facilitate learning for disciplines such as nursing, medicine, and tourism; however, no corpus yet exists for Information-Communication Technologies (ICT). Creation of this ICT corpus directly assists instructors to identify collocations in the field, furthering communication, report writing, and interpretation. The goal of the study is identify, analyze and compile a list of specialized collocations that occurred frequently in a 803,294-word ICT corpus. Homemade specialized corpus for ICT is presented. Implications for research and pedagogy are discussed. Ant Conc helps to learn new words that can be found in certain professions, the functions of the corpus also help to recognize the meanings of words and the difference between synonyms, so that students use the most semantically appropriate words in speech and construction of texts. The use of the corpus helps to diversify the vocabulary, replenish it with professional terms. We believe that the corpus will be implemented in the education process of Foreign Languages, which will regulate future specialists career growth and the development of professional competencies, which will undoubtedly be reflected in the future development of the ICT industry of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

Keywords: corpus building, ICT collocations, corpus-based vocabulary list, teaching English language, English for Specific Purposes, research journals in ICT.

Pages in journal: 432 - 446