[PROFESSIONAL LEARNING OF A FOREIGN LANGUAGE IN THE EDUCATION AT THE UNIVERSITY].

Abstract

In this article the author reveals the peculiarities of foreign language (FL) learning in different medical educational institutions. Learning a foreign language at the professional level requires a lot of personal work from the medical students. In the process of mastering all kinds of foreign language activities in a medical educational institution, students develop many important professional qualities. They become more patient, learn independently solve to many difficulties in their work, are accurate and precise in their actions. All these above mentioned qualities play a very important role in the formation of the future medical workers. In the article the researcher also describes the issues related to teaching English the students of the medical education institutions with different special purposes and belonging to different groups in terms of the proficiency levels. The author describes the methodology in terms of the competence and communicative approaches. The article gives a brief description of the main features of «the medical foreign language», and also gives the specific characteristics of the language exercises that help the teacher of a FL at the university to teach students the professional terminology.