Issue №: 6 (46)
The magazine deals with the problems of the agricultural sector of the economy in the context of integration and processes of globalization. Attention is paid to the issues of development of digital economy, rural territories, technologies of enterprise management and organization of accounting, problems of legal support of economic processes, market tendencies of development of various branches of economy. Particular attention is paid to green tourism as a promising segment of the national economy.
ENGLISH LEXICAL COMPETENCY OF ECONOMIC SPECIALTIES STUDENTS OF NONLINGUISTIC HIGHER INSTITUTIONS: THE COGNITIVE APPROACH
TYMOSHCHUK Nataliia – Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor of the
Ukrainian and Foreign Languages Department, Vinnytsia National Agrarian University (21008,
Vinnytsia, 3 Soniachna Str., e-mail: redish_fox15@ukr.net).
The article deals with the problem of applying cognitive approach to teaching English
terminological vocabulary to students of economic specialties of higher educational institutions. Both
the notion of "cognitive approach" and its interpretation by domestic and
foreign scientists are considered. The system of cognitive exercises on learning English economic
terminology on the example of the topic "What is Business" are presented, they are based on the logical
operations of comparison, identification, disjunction, conjunction, analysis and synthesis, abstraction,
generalization, classification, typology, categorization, conceptualization, reasoning, the formulation
of concepts, and judgments. A comparative analysis of the formation of the English language lexical
competence of students of economic specialties has been carried out. It is proved that mastering of
foreign language professional vocabulary is one of the main components professional foreign language
because it increases the educational process efficiency, contributes to the formation of a competent
specialist, competitive in modern conditions. It has been proved that the cognitive approach to teaching
economic vocabulary significantly improved the students' ability to memorize the new terminological
vocabulary of business English effectively.
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About the journal
С1 Economics and International Economic Relations (by specialization)
D1 Accounting and Taxation
D2 Finance, Banking, Insurance and Stock Market
D3 Management
D4 Public Management and Administration
D5 Marketing
D7 Trade
J3 Tourism and Recreation
History of the journal:
Founded in 1997 under the name ”Bulletin of Vinnytsia State Agricultural Institute”. In 2010-2014 it was published under the name “Collection of Scientific Papers of Vinnytsia National Agrarian University”. Since 2015 “Economics, finance, management: current issues of science and practical activity” (Certificate of State Registration of Mass Media No. 21154-10954 PR dated 12/31/2014).

