Perception du lexique specialise : etudes d'efficacite de differents textes

The subject of the analysis constitutes the efficiency of different texts in the process of teaching/learning the specialist French language, as well as an attempt to evaluate the influence of the usage of texts on the level of perception of specialist vocabulary among the people partaking in the experiment in question. The following research questions were asked: To what an extent does the usage of the authentic trade documents help people learning the trade French language in the acquisition of the specialist terminology? Which competences can be developed as a result of working with the authentic trade texts? Does working with the authentic specialist texts improve the level of perception of the specialist vocabulary? Do the students working with the authentic specialist texts have fewer problems with understanding subsequent specialist texts? What benefits can we get from using the specialist texts in the process of teaching foreign languages? Which types of memory are considered to play the most vital role in the process of perception of the specialiost vocabulary? Furhter on, the work discussed: — factors influencing percpetion of the specialist terminology, — the research scheme, — the research corpus, involving the authentic texts (documents of the French companies in the territory of Poland) and excerpts taken from the coursebooks Le Nouveau French for Business. Le Francais des Affaires (LE GOFF, 1994), and Faire des Affaires en Français (SANCHEZ MACAGNO, CORADO, 1997), — the interpretation of the results. 36 students; 16 2nd year and 20 3rd year students participated in the research in focus. Proposing different activities, the lecturer asked the participants to find the specialist terminology in the text. In case their choice of the word/term is correct, they get 1 point, and when the wrong word is chosen or the specialist word/term is missed out, they lose 1 point. Based on this classification, it was possible to evaluate if the usage of texts in a given field improved the level of comprehension of single words and contextualised terminology. The results of the experiment show that the usage of texts had a big influence on the intensity and duration of memorization of the specialist terminology, especially in the case of people who had the biggest problems with finding it in the text, and proper understanding