RUSSIAN COLOUR-RELATED LEXIS IN EXERCISE SYSTEMS FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS

Abstract

The article covers the ways of rendering colour perception in Russian using lexical units of different parts of speech. The researcher analyzes the integrity of such units in the authentic texts (medical textbooks for students majoring in medicine, corpora of Russian medical records and corpora of questions and answers from medical forums). As the result of the analysis we identify the layers of colour vocabulary that are relevant to medical students. After analyzing a number of contemporary Russian language textbooks for foreign medical students, the author notices a lack of representation of certain colour-related lexical layers that are frequent in the medical texts at the previous step of research. According to these observations, the author develops a system of exercises, including various layers of colour terms, which is supposed to stimulate the development of students’ general language (word-building, syntax transformation) and professional communication skills.