MODELLING PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATIVE SITUATIONS AS A TECHNIQUE TO IMPROVE FOREIGN STUDENTS’ BUSINESS COMMUNICATION SKILLS AT MEDICAL FACULTIES OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

Abstract

Summary. The article grounds the expediency of modelling professional communicative situations aimed at improving business communication skills of foreign students of medical faculties during the classes of Business Ukrainian Language in higher education institutions. The author presents interactive situations (presentation, intellectual-prognostic, perceptual-empathic, speech, emotionalregulatory, creative, reflective), imitating real conditions of professional activity of future medical specialists. Professional communicative situations were developed in accordance with the structural components of business communication skills (analytical-prognostic, empathic-perceptual, emotional-regulatory, presentation-communicative, linguistic-informational, reflective-corrective), which required students to demonstrate their business abilities and skills. It is stated that Ukrainian performs communicative functions (intraprofessional communication, communication between a doctor and a patient, terminological nomination of medicines, professional objects and phenomena) in the course of modelling professional communicative situations. Emphasis is placed on modelling the subject and social context of students’ future professional activities under the conditions of the humanitarian educational environment at medical faculties of higher education institutions. It is concluded that the main aim of students’ subject actions is the practical transformation of simulated professional communicative situations, where information is a means of cognitive activity, in the process of which it becomes the knowledge of future medical specialists. It is found out that one of the effective techniques for creating an educational communicative speech situation is students’ analysis of the reproduced discourse taking into account all its functional elements. The article presents a three-level system for discursive training preparation.