The adapted text on internal diseases in teaching students of medicine

Authors

  • Veselina Andonova Nyagolova
  • Valentina Angelova Raynova
  • Svetla Dimitrova Trendafilova

Keywords:

endocrine diseases, text type, thematic structure of the text, structural units, specialized text, grammar and vocabulary, compositional plan of the text, developing communication skills

Abstract

The effective teaching of language for specific purposes to students of medical subjects de-pends on the accurate analysis of their communication needs, especially when obtaining med-ical education in a foreign language. The basic source of material for developing linguistic skills are the texts on internal diseases. This paper aims at analysing basic content, structural, language and compositional specifics of a type of text in academic literature for students who study medicine in bulgarian. Its practical application is to provide some criteria for adapting authentic texts for the goals of teaching languages for specific purposes. The analysis is based on more than 30 original texts from the chapter on endocrine diseases in the textbook Clinics of internal diseases4. sample tasks of the practical implementation of summarised text specif-ics in the process of teaching both bulgarian and English as foreign languages to students of medicine have also been included.

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Published

2022-08-31

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 1 (2013): Jahr - Annual of the Department of Social Sciences and Medical Humanities

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