Role play as an educational technique of foreign language teaching in a medical university

Baeva Tamara Akhmatovna, Kubacheva Kabiyat Ibragimovna, Koroleva Natalia Gennadievna

This article considers some issues related to the use of role play technique as a factor to enhance learning efficiency in the process of foreign language teaching in a medical university. The purpose of the study is to analyze the influence of using this interactive role play technique on acquiring foreign language communicative competence in the field of professional activity. Role play technique allows to include foreign language learning directly in the model of the future health professionals’ work in hospitals, community health centers and private practice. Health professional activities can be represented as a dynamic system of specific actions aimed at achieving the ultimate goal: curing the patient. So, we use a huge variety of exercises for simulation of real communication between hospital team members and a patient. The authors share their experience in using role-play technology organized in the process of distance learning with the use of online platform and a variety of “offline” and “online” exercises to simulate real communication between healthcare professionals and patients that allows to optimize the educational process without losing the quality of training.

Keywords:role-play; the process of real communication in medical practice; "offline" and "online" exercises; foreign-language professional communicative competence.