A task-based Framework proposal for teaching reading comprehension at the Medical School
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2013-07-05
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Cairo Molinet, Julian
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Universidad Central "Marta Abreu" de Las Villas
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English reading comprehension in integration with the rest of the language skills is a tool for the professional work and the scientific development of future health professional in medical universities. That is why English discipline has been playing a relevant role since 1984 in the curriculum of medical sciences. However, there are inadequacies in the development of reading comprehension skills, among other factors, exercises that appear on the textbook are far from the task-based approach so they are basically reproductive exercises in which students are not expected to complete authentic reading tasks. These aspects have a negative influence on the development of the mentioned language skill in the second year medical students. So it is necessary to find some new ways of teaching reading comprehension to second year medical students at ¨Lidia Doce¨ Medical University Branch. This situation allows stating the following research question: How to develop reading comprehension skills in the teaching of English for general purposes at ¨Lidia Doce¨ Medical University Branch? Systematic evaluation of findings in the pedagogical practice showed the need of designing a framework for applying the task-based approach to the teaching of reading comprehension in second year medical students at ¨Lidia Doce¨ Medical University Branch.
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Framework, English Reading Comprehension, Health Professional, Medical University Branch