Program Discipline: Russian as a Foreign Language (стр. 1 )

PROGRAM

Discipline: Russian as a Foreign Language

Recommended for areas of training (specialty):

«Medicine» (31.05.01)

Graduate Qualification (with the qualification of graduate accordingly with FGES): specialist

Aims and objectives of the Discipline

Aims: The course focuses on the teaching and mastery of general communicative and professional communicative competences of foreign Medical Institute students. 

Objectives:

knowledge of, correct and adequate usage of  general medical vocabulary and idioms; improvement of competence in effective  general and professional communication at a Russian-speaking hospital or clinical setting in the situations of interaction with patients and specialists; ability to work with professional documents; ability and willingness to realize, correctly interpret the Russian hospital culture concepts; ability and willingness to carry out professional cultural mediation between Russian specialists and those from his native country.

Place of the Discipline in Basic Educational Program: Humanitarian, Social, Economic (Basic) Part.

3. Requirements for the Results of Mastering the Discipline:

3.1. Core cultural competences (CC):

ability and willingness to analyze and characterize by means of Russian language socially significant problems and processes used in the practice of humanities, natural sciences, biomedical and clinical sciences in various kinds of professional and social activities (CC-1); ability and willingness to understand,  analyze and characterize by means of Russian language philosophical,  personally significant philosophical problems, the basic philosophical categories, logically express in Russian his own thoughts (CC-2); ability and willingness to  analyze and characterize by means of Russian language significant historical events and trends, acquire the basic concepts and laws of the world historical process; (CC-4); ability and willingness to participate in tolerant open professional discussion, speak in public in Russian, adjust and settle conflicts; ability and willingness to cooperate on the basis of tolerance and empathy; ability and willingness to maintain professional activities on the basis of moral  norms of human society, norms of ethics and etiquette, acts of law (CC-8).

3.2. General professional competences (GPC) – ability and willingness:

to use Russian biological  terminology, to work with the Russian specialized literature: explore scientific information of Russian professional literature, periodic press, scientific magazines, domestic and Russian experience on the subject of the study (GPC-1); to implement ethical and deontological aspects of medical practice in communicating with Russian colleagues, middle and junior medical staff, adults and adolescents, their parents and relatives (GPC-4); to form a new personality traits: to be critical of himself (herself), his (her) stereotypes and habits,  to collaborate and engage in dialogue, to critically evaluate the information and be able to analyze and synthesize, to be morally responsible for his (her) work, capable of creative adaptation in the real world (GPC-5); to work with professional documents (GPC-6); to organize health care using Russian language means of professional communication (GPC-10);

3.3. Core professional competences (PC) – ability and willingness:

to carry out physical examination of the Russian patient’s case history;  to interpret the results of laboratory and instrumental methods of investigation,  to use the algorithm performances preliminary diagnosis (primary, concomitant complications) (PC-5); to analyze health information on the basis of the overarching principles of evidence-based medicine,  to find adequate and effective solutions on the basis of theoretical knowledge and practical skills in order to improve the professional activity (PC-3); to participate in written and oral communication in Russian​​, to prepare and edit text in Russian with professional and socially meaningful content; percept innovations,  critical information (PC-7); to conduct discussions, participate in social interaction with society, community, team,  friends, partners in Russian (PC-8); to cooperate with Russian colleagues and work in a team, to organize the work of performers, to make the best management decisions (PC-9); to be in control of Russian patients behavior by using various forms and methods of professional communicative management, modern information and technologies (PC-10); to carry out his (her) activities in various spheres of public life with the help of Russian language units, taking into account socially accepted moral and legal norms; comply with the rules of medical ethics and deontology, laws and regulations on handling confidential information (PC-11); to use competently computer equipment, medical and technical equipment in professional work, to be ready to apply modern information technology to solve professional problems (PC-12);

4. In the sphere of communicative competence the student should have the following knowledge, skills, abilities, competences.

4.1. General educational competence, i. e. ability to learn, which mobilises existential competence, declarative knowledge, educational skills, abilities, know-how.

4.1.1. Existential competence: e. g. a willingness to take initiatives  in face-to-face communication, so as to afford oneself the opportunity to speak, to prompt assistance from the people with whom one is speaking, such as asking them to rephrase what they have said in simpler terms, etc.; also listening skills, attention to what is said, heightened awareness of the risks of cultural misunderstanding in relations with others.

4.1.2. Declarative knowledge: e. g. knowledge of what morpho-syntactical relations correspond to given declension patterns for Russian language; or awareness that there may be a taboo or particular rituals associated with communicative practices in Russian medical communicative culture.

4.1.3. Educational skills, abilities and know-how: facility in using a dictionary; knowing how to manipulate audiovisual or computer media (e. g. the Internet) as learning resources.

4.2. Phonological competence includes a knowledge of, and skills in the perception and production of:

the sound-units (phonemes) of the Russian language and their realization in particular contexts (allophones); Russian vowel and consonant sounds; the phonetic features which distinguish Russian phonemes (distinctive features, e. g. voicing); the phonetic composition of Russian words (syllable structure, the sequence of phonemes, word stress, word tones); Russian reading rules and stress; Russian sentence phonetics (prosody); Russian sentence stress and rhythm; intonation; syntagmatic division of phrases.

4.3. Orthographic competence. Student should have a knowledge of and skill in the perception and production of the symbols of which written texts are composed. For Russian alphabetic system, students should know and be able to perceive and produce:

Russian Alphabet: correspondence of sounds and letters; the form of letters in printed and cursive forms in both upper and lower case;

• the proper spelling of Russian words, including recognized contracted forms;

• punctuation marks and their conventions of use;

• typographical conventions and varieties of font, etc.;

• logographic signs in common use (и др., и т. д., и т. п., г., etc.).

As a result of mastering the discipline the student should possess the general and professional communicative competencies, i. e. ability and willingness to communicate in main communicative Domains. Main Domains of Russian Language communication: a) Public, Personal (corresponding to General Russian Language communicative competence); b) Educational, Occupational (corresponding to Professional Russian Language communicative competence).

4.3.1. General Communicative Competence at the B2 (Vantage) Level involves:

ability to understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including professional discussions in his (her) field of specialization; ability to interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without strain for either party; ability to  produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain a viewpoint on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.

B2 Level of General Communicative Competence includes as components:

sociolinguistic competence, which refers to the sociocultural conditions of language use. Through its sensitivity to social conventions (rules of politeness, norms governing relations between generations and social groups, linguistic codification of certain fundamental rituals in the functioning of a community), the sociolinguistic component strictly affects all language communication between representatives of different cultures, even though participants may often be unaware of its influence; pragmatic competence, concerned with the functional use of linguistic resources (production of language functions, speech acts), drawing on scenarios or scripts of interactional exchanges. It also concerns the mastery of discourse, cohesion and coherence, the identification of text types and forms, irony, and parody. For this component even more than the linguistic component, it is hardly necessary to stress the major impact of interactions and cultural environments in which such abilities are constructed; linguistic competence, which includes lexical, phonological, syntactical knowledge and skills and other dimensions of Russian language as system, independently of the sociolinguistic value of its variations and the pragmatic functions of its realizations.

B2 Sociolinguistic competence involves the following skills and abilities: