Scientific paper ID 2404 : 2023/3

The current paper represents a continuation of a previous study written by the author and devoted to investigating the presumed university students’ research advantages in terms of English for General Purposes (EGP) and English for Specific Purposes (ESP) teaching, with respect to learners’ language awareness (LA) and autonomy (LrA) improvement. The article describes an EGP university students’ research experiment, developed and conducted by the author, at the Todor Kableshkov University of Transport, Bulgaria, in the objective of checking the hypothesis of student research positive impact on LA and LrA. Author-guided student exploration was performed within the framework of the English article system with the purpose to determine articles values and uses. To more completely elucidate researched matters, some contrasts were established in terms of the examined English category Bulgarian equivalents, mainly through carried out author-supervised educational purpose translation. The experiment consisted of two central tasks, the first one, related to exploring recommended practical grammar sources and extracting fundamentals as to English articles essence, and the second one, directed at analyzing an exemplifying text in English concerning researched category functioning, and, then, translating the text to Bulgarian. Students were asked to complete a 16-item questionnaire regarding learner research influence on LA and LrA. Survey findings are presented and conclusions are mainly made as to carried out student research influence on experiment participants’ LA and LrA enhancement.