FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING BASED ON ORGANIZING PRACTICE-ORIENTED COMMUNICATION IN THE CLASSROOM (FROM THE EXPERIENCE OF TEACHING MEDICAL ENGLISH)
Abstract
The article describes the organization of practice-oriented communication in teaching English as a foreign language to medical students. The study validates the role and meaning of the applied teaching methods: verbal-dialectical, terminological-conceptual, and interactive. It also provides grounds for the use of the following forms and means of the students’ work: case studies, an electronic textbook “English for Pharmacists”, and the teaching and assessing software for organizing practice-oriented communication in a foreign language classroom. The used means and methods increase the students’ engagement and their autonomy; intensify the learning process and enrich it with the professional knowledge; they also allow the students to develop a sufficient level of professionally oriented competence.
Key words: practice-oriented communication, professionally oriented language competence, verbal-dialectical method
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