Keyword: «vocabulary»

This article discusses borrowings from the Russian language. The authors give the main reasons for borrowing vocabulary from Russian, and group borrowings depending on the time of their appearance in the English language. In addition, the authors give a time periodization of the main Russian-language borrowings in English.

The distinctive features of slang in Russian and English are considered in the article. The aim of the article is to study the usage of slang among young people. Based on the performed research the author concludes that slang is of great importance for young people. Thanks to slang, young people can easily find a common language with each other and learn new foreign words.

The article reflects data on the state of verb vocabulary of preschool children with speech pathology. It presents the results of conducted research. The specific types of errors, that children make, are indicated. It is reported that the pathology of speech causes not only the limited vocabulary. Preschoolers find it difficult to include verbs in phrases and texts. This negatively affects the development of communication skills and the preparation of children to learn reading.

At the present stage of the modernization of the educational environment, general education institutions focus on improving the quality of the educational process and the effectiveness of learning a foreign language. In connection with the introduction of modern trends, the use of teaching methods for organizing productive learning of a foreign language sets a number of tasks for a modern teacher. Solving these tasks, children's activities will be caused not only by comfortable perception and memorization of new information, but also the ability to apply the gained knowledge in practice with the help of the lexical aspect of the language. The purpose of the study was to introduce into the process of teaching the work with artistic material in the form of verses and songs, which would contribute to the implementation of personal-activity and communicative approaches at English classes in the secondary school. The theoretical analysis and synthesis of Russian and foreign literature on the topic of research, the pedagogical observation and analysis of Nursery Rhymes which allowed us to find out the peculiarities of the vocabulary of books and the possibility of their usage in general education institutions were chosen as a scientific method. As a result, tasks for work with songs and poems were looked through and analyzed, and also features of the formation of a lexical aspect, which plays the role of a generator of passive learning vocabulary, were identified.

there is an increased demand for effective military communications in English. The problem of the choice of the variant (American or British) of the English language to study at a military educational institution has been discussed in the article. There are distinctions in pronunciation, spelling, grammar, and lexicon of the British and American variants of the English language. The ways the American variant influences the British variant have been shown. The article states importance of studying these distinctions to acquire professional communicative competence in English at a Military Educational Institution.