FOREIGN LANGUAGE IN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY IN THE CONTEXT OF FSES 3++: STUDENTS’ READINESS FOR INDEPENDENT WORK

Abstract

The article highlights the issue of readiness of medical university students for independent work in the context of novel state educational standards (FSES 3++). It is noted that in conditions of optimization of the teaching load, which is expressed in the redistribution of the number of contact hours and hours for independent work, development of students’ skills in independent work, including those in the discipline “foreign language”, are tasks of primary significance. According to the authors of the article, this is the aim of the new system of teaching foreign languages at Burdenko Voronezh State Medical University. The study performed allows detecting challenges that arise when students learn foreign languages, the level of students’ readiness for independent work; giving recommendations and perspectives for successful development of universal competencies “self-organization” and “self-development”.