A Key Perspective on Specialized Lexis: Keywords in Telecommunication Engineering for CLIL

The advent of bilingual programs to tertiary education has meant a noticeable change and introduced Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) approach into Spanish universities. Learning specific contents through the medium of English requires extra language support to access new knowledge; hence the relevance of a specific corpus which encases the key vocabulary and phrases of the content language of a subject or even of a university degree. This study suggests equating the language of learning (Coyle et al., 2010, ) to the key words found by using the keywords tool in Wordsmith (Scott, 2008) and provides an analysis of the keywords in TEC, a corpus specialized in telecommunication English. Consequently, this research reports on the bilingual degree in Telecommunication at the UPCT within the framework of CLIL and why the specialized corpus brings a considerable advantage to that situation.