Abstract

RODRIGUEZ FLORES, Leandro Alberto et al. Characterization of the teaching of the phonological level in Medical English. Rev Ciencias Médicas [online]. 2014, vol.18, n.3, pp.502-511. ISSN 1561-3194.

Introduction: oral communication skills are very important in the teaching of foreign languages, although teaching phonological level, and hence the pronunciation as an essential sub-skill, should receive the same attention due to their impact on the oral performance of Medicine students. Objective: to characterize the teaching of the phonological level in medical English depending on the development of intelligibility in the Medicine major. Material and method: qualitative study supported by the dialectical materialist method. In its course, theoretical methods were used, such as the logical-historical and the systemic-structural, and empirical methods, such as direct observation to classes and the evaluation process of oral communication skills in English for medical purposes. Results: a summary was created of the difficulties of the teaching-learning process of the phonological level, through direct observation of the educational reality, in which this process is contained, and also of the evaluation process of oral communication skills in the English for medical purposes cycle, from the assumed indicators. Conclusions: difficulties were found in the process of teaching the phonological level in English with medical purposes, which limit the intelligibility by most of the students in the medical English cycle of the Medicine major, due to the inefficient management of pronunciation within speaking lessons and on key elements for intelligibility, such as the suprasegmental and segmental ones, as well as other processes associated with oral production.

Keywords : Speech intelligibility; Language; Teaching.

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