DIFFICULTIES IN MASTERING DIMINUTIVE TERMS IN RUSSIAN MEDICAL DISCOURSE BY FOREIGN STUDENTS

Abstract

The article discusses a way of identifying the main difficulties that foreign students of medical universities encounter when becoming familiar with medical terms, expressed by nouns in a diminutive form, as part of classes on mastering the language of the specialty. To identify such difficulties, the author of the article conducts an ascertaining experiment, including five tasks with diminutive terms, aimed at testing the level of development of skills in working with diminutive terminological vocabulary of medical discourse among foreign students at an initial level of proficiency in Russian as a foreign language. The article presents the results of completing each of the five tasks and analyzes the most common errors. The author singles out typical difficulties of foreign students when becoming familiar with diminutive terms and reasons for their appearance. The work has methodological recommendations that should help overcome these difficulties.