LEXICAL COMPETENCE AS THE LANGUAGE BASIS OF MEDICAL STUDENTS’ COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE

Abstract

The article is devoted to questions of the formation of foreign-language lexical competence as the language basis of Medical students’ communicative competence, the main concepts relating to the lexical aspect of foreign language training are interpreted, the attention is paid to the lexical component as the most essential one of both expressional and receptive types of speech activity, levels of the formation of lexical competence as necessary stages of its gradual development are shown. The author pays attention to lexical skills as the integral structural component of foreign-language professional lexical competence in a framework of interdisciplinary connections characterizing their features and conditions of its development, the advantage of lexical competence formation on an interdisciplinary basis is pointed out while taking into consideration the linguistic features of the language material and also applying the results of students’ educational activity.