Technology of formation of future students-pharmacists skills of independent study of professional medical literature

Abstract

The paper presents the selecting technology of lexical thesaurus with professional potential as units of the didactic textual materials for students-pharmacists self-directed reading skills (guided-unguided work) forming; grounded on the modern Ukrainian investigations analyzing and focused on the ESP teaching the key selected criteria of English pharmaceutical vocabulary (use and frequency, topicality, consideration of the professional communication sphere, functionality), which integrally correlate with content and procedural components of the partial working program teaching have been determined. Considered in the paper are: the formation of lexical awareness in reading throughout three stages: introduction, whereby the students get acquainted with lexical units in and beyond the context, as well as develop their lexical consciousness; training, which promotes students’ automatic work with new vocabulary; application in the process of reading and speaking; the criteria for assessing the level of prospective pharmacists’ mastering professionally oriented English lexical competence in reading, the accuracy of understanding, the correctness of guessing the meaning of a lexical unit, the adequacy of usage.