Resumen

MARANTE POZO, Esperanza; CANDELARIA DOMINGUEZ, Marilay; GENER RAMIREZ, Arelys Esther  y  BARRIZONTE ZAYAS, Liudmila. Development of Oral Skill in English for Medical and Nursing Students. Rev Ciencias Médicas [online]. 2006, vol.10, n.2, pp. 21-30. ISSN 1561-3194.

The development of oral communicative skills is one of the main objectives in teaching foreign languages. It plays a significant role for the interactive insertion of man in today's world, thus some theoretical aspects have been assessed, taking into account the development of oral skills in the teaching of the English language. Teachers need to be informed, putting emphasis on planning tasks which encourage the development of this skill through the participation of students in English classrooms, and to make them actively involved individuals and doers of their own knowledge. Technical strategies used were: brain storming ideas, narrations, predictions and others, to enhance the use of the foreign language. These strategies were used in 100% of both medical and nursery groups, exploring results obtained through surveys for this purpose. Concluding that these interactive activities make possible the development of oral skill in 100% of the students. For this, a series of possibilities to perform these kind of tasks in English clasrooms were analyzed to elicit students' talk.

Palabras clave : ORAL SKILLS; NURSERY STUDENTS; MEDICAL STUDENTS; MEDICAL SCHOOLS; VERBAL LEARNING; ENGLISH LANGUAGE STUDENTS.

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