A MODULE FOR DEVELOPING LINGUISTIC COMPETENCE AND PERFORMANCE IN BULGARIAN ON BLACKBOARD

Abstract

Oral communication in clinical encounters is an essential necessity for foreign students in Medicine at MU, Varna and it is a major goal in their academic syllabus in Bulgarian language.

Searching for effective teaching methods and approaches, which help to overcome the students` difficulties and develop their speaking skills, is a major challenge in the process of teaching and learning Bulgarian as a foreign language.

This report presents an analysis and summarizes results from the implementation of  online education resources on the topic: Doctor-patient communication for 2^nd year students of Medicine with the aim to encourage their communication with patients in Bulgarian.  The focus is on target tasks for autonomous learning and improvement in an extracurricular environment on the Blackboard e-learning platform. The development and systematizing of preparatory, simultaneous and productive (summarizing) tasks as part of the video resources, supplement and improve the E-learning syllabus in Bulgarian language at level Ð’1.