Teaching English for Specific Purposes is a less explored branch in Uzbekistan and it has been a crucial part of discussion. Considering the process of student-centered learning with flipped classroom using corpus tools, focusing on cognition of idiomatic units in modern literature can be the most perspective part of the involvement. ESP teachers in Uzbekistan are aiming to design the syllabus in terms of meeting students’ needs for their future professions. As researchers have already indicated, the most frequent type of psychological units’ transformations in the corpus can assist the author’s intention to specify the utterance, to revive the meaning of the phraseological unit intensifying its expressiveness (Bekhta, 2022). C.P.Amador-Moreno (2022) argues that using corpus linguistics techniques can be beneficial in illustrating value of literary (re)productions. M.N.L.Azmi’s research (2015) stresses the elements of concepts of “meaning” and “truth” in literary works and Lazar (2009) proves that literature can be used as a tool for discussion, controversy, and critical thinking in ESP setting. Concerning these issues, we designed over four-week home reading classes on “The Silence of the Lambs” by Thomas Harris in three gradual steps: 1) collecting idioms; 2) analyzing the frequency list of idioms in COCA; 3) exploring Uzbek literary translations of idioms using parallel corpora (www.uzbekcorpus.uz). The results showed that the experiment can help law students to learn the most frequently used idiomatic units in modern English. The presenters will discuss the challenges they faced and the productivity of classes by focusing on idiomatic units in psychological thriller fiction.

Authors:
Sojida Samandarova, Uzbekistan State University of World Languages, Uzbekistan
Abror Shaymardanov, Uzbekistan State University of World Languages, Uzbekistan

About the Presenter(s)
Samandarova Sojida is interested in psychological thriller as a literary genre and she is carrying out research on Thomas Harris's works.

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