Resumen

TRUJILLO CHONG, Oscar  y  MONTANE GONZALEZ, Bárbara. A proposal of a course to balance the skills of English language on Medical and Dental students in the first academic year. Rev Ciencias Médicas [online]. 2007, vol.11, n.4, pp.145-154. ISSN 1561-3194.

Aimed at preparing an introductory course to balance the skills of English language on medical and dental students in the first academic year at "Ernesto Guevara de la Serna" Medical School, a review of the main contents in "Changes I" textbook was carried out. Those contents, characterized a presenting great difficulties for students, visits to classes, assessment of the difficulties, teaching experience of prefessors who have worked of 8 hear with the textbooks, evaluation of the students' heterogeneity and composition of the groups (due to the differents ways of enrollment into medical school) were taken into account for the analysis. These aspectos allowed to group the main contents of Grammar and Vocabulary to begin with Changes I textbook due to the needs of communication starting from an approach based on communicative functions of English Language.

Palabras clave : MEDICAL STUDENTS; DENTAL STUDENTS; LANGUAGE STUDIES.

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