Lexical card as the students’ vocabulary level extending tool

Abstract

The article analyses the ways of solving the modern problem of non-linguistic faculty students’ foreign language proficiency. This problem is relevant nowadays because when students enter the university the majority of them show low level of foreign language proficiency accordingly to the Common European Framework of References. The purpose of the article is to describe the positive impact of the developed new tool for extending the students vocabulary level. The research was done in three stages: ascertaining, forming and control. Ascertaining stage showed the differences between the required student s’ foreign language proficiency and their real level of it. The forming stage of the research devoted to show the procedure of students’ vocabulary extending process, and the control stage was about to test the level of students’ vocabulary level after using the new tool as a student lexical card. The research was conducted at Samara University, where 324 non-linguistic faculties’ students took part. As the result of the research it is necessary to be mentioned the lexical card that was developed as the tool for extending students vocabulary level had positive impact for students in the process of studying, and for teachers in the process of teaching.