THE FORMATION OF LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE OF STUDENTS BASED ON STUDY OF THE PROFESSIONAL TERMINOLOGY OF FORESTRY AND WOOD TECHNOLOGY

In the article the necessity for the students of higher technical educational institutions to study professional lexicon in order to form a terminological competence is stressed. The two types of paradigmatic relations such as synonymic and antonymic in modern forestry and wood technology terms are considered. The main types of terminological synonymous associations are also identified. Some reasons of the development of terminological doublets are explained. Some peculiarities of the functioning of antonymy in these vocabulary groups are defined. The groups of antonyms according to the semantic criterion are described. Some types of exercises for studying the terminological synonyms and antonyms in the courses “The Ukrainian Language for Proficiency” and “The Professional Terminology” are proposed