Teaching English To Medical Students On The Basis Of Professionally Oriented Approach

Abstract

Modern approaches such as professionally oriented, communicative and competence-based approaches in teaching a foreign language are core issues for all areas of higher education today. One of the areas of teaching English for the specialty is English for medical purposes. English for medical purposes is taught from a real-world perspective, which means teaching English is context-specific and vocabulary in many countries around the world. This article deals with issues of the teaching students of medical specialties in English for special purposes and provides a brief overview of the specific characteristics of medical English and exercises aimed at mastering at professional vocabulary acquisition in mixed-level learning groups.