Abstract

BECKLES FERRY, Nancy María; VARELA VIAMONTES, Alder  and  CHAVEZ DE LA VEGA, Yanet de los Ángeles. Historical background of the teaching- learning of written textual construction in English for medical purposes. Rev Hum Med [online]. 2022, vol.22, n.2, pp.439-453.  Epub June 20, 2022. ISSN 1727-8120.

The teaching-learning process of English in medical universities has undergone study plan changes to match the demands of the society related to the integral formation of health professionals with communicative competence in English, in the oral and in the written sub-code as well. The objective of the present paper is to analyze the historical background of the written text construction in the teaching-learning process of English for medical purposes in Cuba. The methods of theoretical historical-logical level and analysis-synthesis allowed the knowledge of the main tendencies in the development of this theme and the determination of its historicity. The review of normative documents of the Medicine career and the consulted bibliography on the topic, allowed the compilation of information presented and the establishment of the main trends that have characterized the textual construction written in English for medical purposes.

Keywords : teaching-learning process; English for medical purposes; test writing.

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