LANGUAGE TEACHING TERMS: FUNCTIONAL ASPECTS AND LEXICOGRAPHIC FIXATION

The paper dwells on the analysis of various characteristics of modern language teaching terms. The significance of the research is accounted for by the development of special lexemes due to new tendencies in the language teaching. The chief aims are to study structural and semantic features of terms in term-using, term-creating and term-fixing texts, and to analyse terminological dictionaries in several languages. Such methods as the analysis of discourse, dictionary entries, as well as structural-semantic analysis and qualitative methods, etc. are used to reveal certain key types of terminological variation at different levels of the German language. Theoretical and practical impact and research novelty of the investigation consist in the detection of some extraand intralinguistic specific features of language teaching terminology development (abbreviation, internationalisation, thematic expansion, etc.), and the description of the authors’ lexicographic project.