Abstract

QUESADA LIMA, Adela; FINALET MARRERO, Elizabeth; RECINO PINEDA, Uvaldo  and  FLEITES GARCIA, Yagima. Methodological actions to incentivate the use of the English language in medical sciences students and professionals. Rev EDUMECENTRO [online]. 2015, vol.7, n.3, pp. 135-147. ISSN 2077-2874.

Background: the teaching of English has emphasized the importance of knowing this language from different perspectives; its command is an indispensable requirement for the success in diverse professional and academic environments. Objective: to elaborate methodological actions to motivate the use of the English language in the medical sciences students and professionals. Methods: it was carried out a cross-sectional descriptive study in "Lidia Doce Sánchez University site from" Sagua la Grande, Villa Clara, in the academic year 2012-2013. Theoretical methods were used: analysis-synthesis, inductive-deductive; empiric ones: documental analysis and an interview in questionnaire form was applied to the students and the professionals were also interviewed and the specialists´ criteria for the valuation of the proposal. Results: the applied instruments demonstrated inadequacies in the methodological treatment and lack of knowledge of the language in the participant professors of the subjects, to achieve the appropriate implementation of the English language curricular strategy in each career, and the undeniable statement that this language constitutes a necessity for the medical sciences professionals of the territory. Methodological actions were elaborated. Conclusion: the methodological actions were valued by specialists as pertinent, they are feasible to be applied for the availability of human resources and materials to put them into practice and they have pedagogic and scientific quality for their implementation.

Keywords : Methodology; learning.

        · abstract in Spanish     · text in Spanish     · Spanish ( pdf )