In this paper we emphasize the fact that teaching e-commerce terminology is not an easy-doing task, taking into account that terminology is an interdisciplinary science that deals with the classification and standardisation of the specialised vocabulary, by giving relevant information in a technical-scientific framework. The major goal of this science is to enforce the terms and describe them according to proper and current communicative situations, using the methods and principles of linguistics. (the linguistic description of terms). Nowadays, teaching new, emerging terminologies has been strengthened at an international level. Teaching e-commerce terminology can be very challenging for teachers and students: on the one hand, it cannot be achieved without the linguistic analysis of the terms, but on the other hand students become more and more interested in the new terminological trends. Furthermore, e-commerce terminology becomes functional if the teaching process is also based on the tight collaboration between teachers and e-commerce experts, helping teachers to present and explain e-commerce terms in a vulgarised manner. Teachers, in their turn, manage to find suitable teaching methods to enhance the students’ knowledge in an interdisciplinary approach. Thus, teaching is productive after the linguistic analysis of e-commerce terms and the functional degree of certain terms is relevant in various fields: economics, marketing, information technology. The collaboration between teachers, terminologists and marketing specialists leads to the efficient flow of e-commerce terms through proper definitions of the e-commerce terms, registered in online glossaries, dictionaries. At this point, teachers can test the students’ level of comprehension and take new pedagogic measures (e.g. students are required to fill in the blanks with suitable terms according to their definitions) in order to enhance the acquisition of new terms.

Teaching methods, Terminology, E-commerce, Students