Lexical material selection criteria for assessment of future bachelors’in applied mechanics English lexical competence

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Abstract. Introduction. Successful professional communication of future bachelors in applied mechanicsrequires mastering lexical competence. Proper material selection is an essential prerequisite of the effectiveteaching and assessing process. In order to identify what lexicon needs to be taught and checked it is requiredto highlight the selection criteria. Purpose. To identify the unit of lexical material selection; to specify textselection criteria and select texts; to substantiate lexical items selection criteria and select terms that will formfuture bachelors’ in applied mechanics vocabulary. Methods. Thorough study of researches on lexical materialselection; selection and analysis of chosen authentic texts, selection, analysis and classification of terminologicalunits. Results. The research showed that future bachelors’ in applied mechanics vocabulary consists of generalEnglish lexicon and subject-specific vocabulary, i.e. terms. In teaching technical English it is relevant to focuson terminological units that need to be selected from specialism-related texts. Professional texts should beselected according to the criteria of authenticity, the professional value of texts, current relevance and novelty,interdisciplinarity, relation to topic, and terminological abundance. The selected texts are the source of terms that should be chosen following the criteria of relation to topic, frequency, professional and semantic value.The analysis of selected terminological units allows grouping them according to their types and structure.Conclusion. Thus, lexical material selection is a vital part in lexical competence teaching and assessment.Specialism-related texts chosen according to the abovementioned criteria are considered to be the source of futurebachelors’ in applied mechanics vocabulary and the context for test tasks. The selected terminological unitsare the basis of future experts’thesaurus that enables them to communicate effectively in professional situations.