THE SPECIFICS OF TEACHING PROFESSIONALLY-ORIENTED ENGLISH TO STUDENTS OF MEDICAL SPECIALTIES

Abstract

The article examines the most significant features of the teaching professionally-oriented English to students of medical specialties process. Immediately before considering this issue, the authors’ attention is paid to the content of the term “professionally-oriented training”. The importance of such training at the present stage of the higher medical education system development in the Russian Federation is proved. The problems that need to be taken into account when integrating professionally-oriented foreign language teaching into the Russian universities educational practice are also investigated. Based on the analysis of a number of special literature titles and the pedagogical experience of the authors associated with their professional activities at Dagestan State Medical University, the introducing professionally-oriented foreign language teaching into the practice of medical universities as a condition for training competitive specialists necessity is proved.