Abstract

BANGUELA GUERRA, Pablo Tomás et al. Compendium of playful activities to teach the English grammar in the second year of Medicine. EDUMECENTRO [online]. 2016, vol.8, n.1, pp.56-68. ISSN 2077-2874.

Background: considering the projection of internationalist collaboration of the country, the idiomatic formation of the future doctors has a great importance. So that the foreign language be efficiently used, the professional should master grammar to communicate in the professional and social sphere. Objective: to elaborate a compendium of playful activities to propitiate an appropriate didactic treatment of grammar in the English III subject in second year of the Medicine career. Methods: it was carried out a descriptive development investigation within the qualitative approach in Villa Clara University of Medical Sciences during the academic year 2011-201. The theoretical and methodological backgrounds were approached for the teaching of grammar through the playful activities in English classes. Methods and researching techniques of the theoretical and empiric level were used to achieve the proposed objective. Results: the diagnosis showed a marked absence of the use of playful activities in the didactic treatment of grammar in the English III subject of the second year of the Medicine career, with a direct incidence in the students' development in the English lessons. A compendium of playful activities was elaborated, which were subjected to specialists' criteria. Conclusions: the activities were characterized by their dynamism and flexibility to achieve the student´s centered role in grammar learning, which constitutes a novel and different form of teaching it. The compendium was valued and accepted keeping in mind its social and pedagogic relevancy, its logical structure, applicability and originality.

Keywords : English; education, medical.

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