THE ROLE OF GAME TECHNOLOGY IN ADVANCING OF FUTURE DENTISTS’ PROFESSIONAL VOCABULARY COMPETENCE FORMATION PROCESS
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.11603/me.2414-5998.2018.1.8826Keywords:
vocabulary competence, short-term memory, working memory, long-term memory, mnemonics.Abstract
The aim of the work – to elaborate and substantiate the game technology for improving future dentists’ professional vocabulary competence formation based on Cambridge methods of English language teaching.
The main body. The students of O. Bohomolets National Medical University are taught professional English in the way they could use it in real life situations. Thus, this requires thorough preparation which demands using different kinds of tasks. One of them, which is considered in the article, is applied to train accuracy of using professional vocabulary. It is described as words remembering. Different kinds of memory and the principles are involved in this process. Basing these principles, special exercises and activities were described. They are divided into traditional and innovative ones.
Conclusions. Innovative activities are beneficial for students as they involve different kinds of learners’ memory. Besides, they contain an aspect of a game in order to motivate students to facilitate the process of words remembering. The benefit of these tasks was proved by surveying students and English teachers of O. Bohomolets National Medical University. Notwithstanding the popularity of innovative tasks among the students, the value of traditional exercises was explained. Some recommendations on how to make the routine tasks more creative were given in the article.
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