Development of compensatory and pragmatic competence in teaching foreign language to students of medical programmes

The purpose of this work is to find ways to develop compensatory and pragmatic competencies in teaching English to future doctors using the case method. The relevance is due to modern trends in combining skills developed in higher education under a single professional competence, which requires the combination of all elements of education. The definitions of compensatory and pragmatic competences are given, their features are described. The components of these competencies in their systemic connection with each other and with teaching methods are considered, the necessary conditions for their formation are identified. The scientific novelty lies in the fact that in order to achieve the goal, the case method was adapted to the specifics of medical programmes. The proposed changes made it applicable in problem language learning by shifting the emphasis of control from a solution to the communicative part of the search process. The methodology of the work included abstracted modeling of educational and language situations and their subsequent analysis. The stages of work with the case are highlighted: problematization, discussion, consensus, aimed at the development of compensatory and pragmatic competence. An algorithm for carrying out a case on medical topics is proposed.