MEDIA TEXT AS A MEANS OF INTEGRATING A FOREIGN STUDENT INTO MEDICAL DISCOURSE

Abstract

The article discusses possibilities of using online media text to integrate foreign students into the Russian-language medical discourse. The objective of the study is to identify and analyze the features of the medical media text that are important for the formation of the discursive competence of foreign-speaking students and for the process of two-stage adaptation of the text for educational purposes. In the work the concept of “media text of online medical discourse” receives a comprehensive description, a comparative analysis of its terminological variations in the typological system of discourse is carried out. Based on a corpus of 277 medical media texts selected by continuous sampling from social networks, key linguistic features of such texts have been identified, which are important for linguistic and didactic description and further methodological development. For the first time the level of terminological saturation of the medical media text localized in digital environment was determined. The obtained data indicate that the concentration of terminological units in the medical media text is twice as low (30-40%) compared to the traditional medical text (75-80%). The results of this study allow to assess the potential of media text in optimizing the process of integrating foreign students into medical discourse, and then – to form a trajectory for the introduction of media materials into the teaching methodology of Russian as a foreign language.