EDUCATIONAL AND METHODOLOGICAL COMPLEX ON THE UKRAINIAN LANGUAGE FOR FOREIGN MEDICAL STUDENTS ENGLISH-SPEAKING FORM OF EDUCATION

Abstract

The article describes the special communicative needs of foreign medical students who receive educational services in Ukrainian institutions of higher education in English and that directs the process of their Ukrainian-language training. Such a contingent of foreign applicants studies the Ukrainian language as a means of socio-cultural, educational-academic and educational-professional adaptation, for the purpose of verbal-communicative interaction in life during the stay in the country of study, in the educational environment of higher education institutions and in practice in Ukrainian hospitals. Ukrainian is not the key to accessing professional knowledge for these students, because they receive educational services (study disciplines) in English. The educational and methodical complex of Ukrainian-language training should be focused on satisfaction of the specified communicative needs. On the other hand, such an educational and methodological complex should be a system of methodological and organizational and educational materials for the educational discipline, which is based on the recommendations for quality assurance in the European educational space. The process of language training of foreign medical students has the following interrelated components: language-communicative, socio-cultural and professional. To ensure this process in the curriculum of the Medical Faculty of V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University envisages the introduction of such disciplines of the linguistic cycle as “Foreign language”, “Ukrainian language for professional purposes”, “Foreign language for professional purposes”. The author of this article also described the structural and semantic elements of the educational and methodological complex of disciplines of the linguistic cycle, which ensure the realization of real communicative needs and intensification of learning. The following structural components are distinguished: 1) normative-methodical materials (curricula, study programs); 2) educational and informational materials (information packages of academic disciplines available to students; 3) educational and methodical materials (for classroom and independent work, for control). The content components are presented in textbooks on the Ukrainian language as a foreign language, aimed at the formation of general communicative and professional-communicative competence of foreign medical students of the English-language form of education. Key words: educational and methodical complex, english-speaking medical students, Ukrainian as a foreign language.