COMMUNICATIVE APPROACH TO TEACHING ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES IN MEDICINE
Authors
Baeva Tamara Achmatovna
Senior Lecturer, Department of Foreign Languages, North-Western State Mechnikov Medical University, St. Petersburg
Abstract
In the communicative approach, also known as the communicative language teaching, the central concept is «communicative competence» which is, in our case – the ultimate goal of teaching Medical English. The present article describes examples of exercises aimed at formation of all components of foreign language communicative competence, presented in a new tutorial for medical students based on the communicative approach.
