PETROLEUM ENGINEERING TERMINOLOGY IN THE ENGLISH AND UZBEK LANGUAGES

Translation is of high importance for better assimilation of the specialized terminology, as it helps professionally oriented students to interpret scientific and technical texts of the oil and gas sector while reading. Furthermore, terminology of this field is being more required by officials in recent years due to the developments of oil and gas industry in our country. Additionally, learners feel a failure in translating specific vocabulary (technical terminology), which complicates the comprehension of context in the process of reading since they could hardly find L1 translation, and those translated from English into Uzbek, that indicates the lexical deficiency in the field of oil and gas in L1. Moreover, the increased number of borrowed words originated from English and Russian languages are being used in the Uzbek language not in an appropriate way. This paper highlights the theories of terminology expressed by Uzbek and foreign researchers. Moreover, the selected oil and gas terminology of the compared languages has been investigated in lexical-semantic aspect.