THE IMPORTANCE OF IMPROVING LEXICAL COMPETENCE OF MEDICAL STUDENTS IN TEACHING ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Abstract

The article describes the importance of the lexicon component in teaching medical terms for English for specific purposes (ESP) students who study medicine. It deals with some problems in the process of teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) for medical students. This article discusses the methodology of teaching EFL effectively in the Karakalpak classroom. The present paper traces the evolvement of the significance of vocabulary in foreign language learning, and offers a look at several approaches, related to foreign language vocabulary knowledge development, that can be included as part of our classroom practices for the benefit of our learners. As a result of discussion and analysis we concluded that it is pivotal to make use of different methods in the process of teaching EFL for ESP students. KEY WORDS: English as a foreign language (EFL), English for specific purposes (ESP), medical terminology, teaching, learning, medicine.