(2018) Science and education, 2, 86-93. Odessa.

Liliya Morska,
Doctor of Pedagogy, professor,
Department of Foreign Languages for Science Faculties,
Ivan Franko National University of Lviv,
1, Universytetska Str., Lviv, Ukraine,
The University of Bielsko-Biala,
2, Willowa Str., Bielsko-Biala, Poland,
Tetiana Horpinich,
PhD (Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences), associate professor,
Department of Foreign Languages,
I. Horbachevsky Ternopil State Medical University,
1, Maidan Voli, Ternopil, Ukraine
Tetiana Olendr,
PhD (Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences), associate professor,
Department of Foreign Languages,
Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University,
2, Kryvonosa Str., Ternopil, Ukraine

TEACHING MEDICAL STUDENTS’ PROFESSIONAL ENGLISH READING
ON THE BASIS OF INDIVIDUAL COGNITIVE LEARNING STYLES

The article deals with the issue of developing future doctors’ reading competency in professional English on the basis of individual cognitive learning styles. The notion “individual cognitive learning style” in the context of medical students’ professional training has been defined; the influence of the given notion on the efficiency of professional communicative competency development has been studied; the advantages of considering right and left hemispheres dominance as individual learning styles in the process of developing medical students’ reading competency in professional English have been grounded. The effectiveness of the suggested methodology has been verified and confirmed in the course of experimental teaching.

 reading competency in professional English, individual cognitive learning style, medical students training.

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