Abstract

PHONETIC INTERFERENCE OF THE LATIN LANGUAGE AND WAYS OF ITS PREVENTION IN TEACHING ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES TO MEDICAL STUDENTS

Highlights

  • A long-standing experience of working at South-Ural State Medical University has shown that contemporary graduates cannot work and develop successfully in conditions of the modern globalized world without knowing a foreign language

  • It is well known that the contemporary federal state educational standards (ФГОС ВО 3+) are based on the idea of “a competence approach”, which presupposes gaining some knowledge in an international language by students and their acquisition of skills and ability to use a foreign language in their professional activity [1; p. ]

  • Along with English, learning Latin is an essential constituent of educational process at all medical universities

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Introduction

A long-standing experience of working at South-Ural State Medical University has shown that contemporary graduates cannot work and develop successfully in conditions of the modern globalized world without knowing a foreign language. Speaking about the main reasons why there is an emergence of various violations of the pronunciation norms by the English language learners under the influence of another simultaneously studied language (Latin, in our case), we should, first all, singularize first year students’ low level of the general language command, revealed in the absence of elementary linguistic knowledge.

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