Instruments of Corpus Linguistics in the Terminological Exercise “Intentional Learning”

The questions of purposefulness of the system of general education are considered in the article. Intentionality is understood as the competence of the teacher, which ensures the focus of his or her activity on the development of the student's abilities. There are presented the results of a frequency analysis of information sources that deal with educational intentionality. The potential of the corpus methodology was also used. Strong word combinations were found using the term “intentional”. This allowed us to identify the context of its application. The historical aspect of the distribution of the term “intentional learning” in Russian and English languages for a hundred-year period is considered and the figures of the activation of the term are presented. Also the intensity and variation in the use of the term are shown.