CROSS-CULTURAL APPROACH TO FORMATON A MEDICAL SPECIALIST AT A REGIONAL RUSSIAN UNIVERSITY

 

Khabibullina Flera Ya.1, Ivanova Iraida G.2

 

1Candidate of Pedagogy, Associate Professor, Mari State University, RUSSIA, khflora@yandex.ru

2Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor, Mari State University, RUSSIA, iraida44@yandex.ru

 

Abstract

One of the key processes in the development of the world economy at the beginning of the XXI century was globalization ‒ a qualitatively new stage in the development of internationalization of economic life, which entailed the structuring of a new geopolitical space and the change of cultural and civilizational paradigms, making changes in the functioning and interaction of languages and cultures. The imperative of coexistence of different languages and cultures indicates the urgent need to review and change the educational policy, internationalization of education, and the formation of cross-cultural competencies of subjects of the educational space. Academic mobility of students, integration of educational systems and institutions of countries, interstate partnership in the field of professional training of students — a typical landscape of modern educational space. In this regard, special attention should be paid to the specifics of training and education of students in a Russian regional University. In the conditions of intensification and diversification of cross-cultural and cross-linguistic contacts of subjects of the educational process in educational institutions of various types, the issue of their cross-cultural training is being updated. Ability to analyze, compare, compare features between bearers of different cultures as the dominant intercultural approach becomes particularly important in the preparation of the modern professional, given that cross-cultural evaluation can be a professional sphere of business communications with foreign language colleagues. The article focuses on teaching in non-language faculties of the University. In this case, it is advisable to raise and resolve the issue of reorienting the process of their language training to the position of an intercultural approach. It will allow us to realize the modern needs for the transformation of competence models of a University student who masters a language not for the sake of communication, or even for the sake of understanding culture. In this case, language becomes an instrument of dialogue between (professional) cultures and an effective tool for implementing all professional communicative intentions of a specialist associated with interaction with colleagues from another culture, country, or society.

In the context of globalization, the development of the Institute of higher education in Russia cannot be represented without international cooperation. With the introduction of a two – level system of higher professional education in the Russian Federation within the framework of the Bologna process, there is an increase in trends of internationalization-a process of sustainable interaction and mutual influence of national educational systems based on common goals and principles that meet the needs of the world community. The implementation of this direction in higher education is impossible without the formed cross-cultural competencies of participants in the educational process. The article aims to explore the major aspects of forming intercultural competence of future health worker training direction "medicine" on the example of teaching of discipline "Latin language and medical terminology" in Russian regional universities "Mari State University". It is established that the leading aspects in the implementation of the competence approach in the intercultural training of future medical specialists by means of the Latin language are systematic, Dialogic, contextual, terminological and ethical-deontological orientation.

The organization of intercultural training is based on the principles of communication, taking into account national and cultural characteristics and intercultural interaction. The principle of communication as a leading methodological principle assumes the organization of the educational process in conditions close to natural for communication. It involves the use of situations of real communication, the organization of active creative activity, the use of collective forms of work, attention to problem situations and creative types of tasks that involve students in common activities.

The accounting principle of national-cultural peculiarities due to the specific multilingual and multicultural students, and having specific experience of training in a natural environment. The principle of intercultural interaction implies such an organization of the educational process, in which the teacher takes into account the national and cultural characteristics of students in terms of intercultural communication with native speakers. The formation of intercultural communication is carried out taking into account the main components: ethnopsychological, due to the mental characteristics of national cultures; behavioral, dictated by the national-cultural specifics of communicative behavior; linguistic, which involves taking into account the national-cultural language content.

Conditions of successful communication depend on several factors: the correct organization of the educational process, contact of the subjects of educational process, availability of teaching materials, equipping classrooms with the necessary technical equipment for presentations and enhance the material security of the faculties competent experts. The effectiveness of the learning process requires a certain socio-cultural training of teachers when working with this contingent of students, which is also necessary, as well as the formation of socio-cultural competence of students. Pedagogical communication is implemented mainly during classroom sessions. Communication between the subjects of the learning process is built using conditional speech situations. The system-forming component of situations is the relationship between communicants, the main factors of which are the role of the participant in the process as a subject of communication and its activities.

Keyword: cross-cultural approach, medical profile, regional Russian University, competence approach, cross-cultural training, Latin language.


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DOI:https://doi.org/10.46529/socioint.2020176

CITATION:Abstracts & Proceedings of SOCIOINT 2020- 7th International Conference on Education and Education of Social Sciences, 15-17 June 2020

ISBN: 978-605-82433-9-2