FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING BASED ON ORGANIZING PRACTICE ORIENTED COMMUNICATION IN THE CLASSROOM (FROM THE EXPERIENCE OF TEACHING MEDICAL ENGLISH)
The article describes the organization of practice oriented communication in teaching English as a foreign language to medical students. The study validates the role and meaning of the applied teaching methods: verbal dialectical, terminological conceptual, and interactive. It also provides grounds for the use of the following forms and means of the students' work: case studies, an electronic textbook "English for Pharmacists" and the teaching and assessing software for organizing practice oriented communication in a foreign language classroom. The used means and methods increase the students' engagement and their autonomy; intensify the learning process and enrich it with the professional knowledge; they also allow the students to develop a sufficient level of professionally oriented competence. Key words practice oriented communication, professionally oriented language competence, verbal dialectical method