Interactive Training of Foreign Medical Students for Verbal Communication in The Process of Learning The Ukrainian Language

The article substantiates the importance of proper mastery of Ukrainian language by foreign medical students in higher education institutions of Ukraine as the means of successfully acquiring the major competences, including the proper verbal and non-verbal communication.

Emphasis is placed on the necessity of using the interactive methods in the educational process, which have received considerable attention in pedagogical science and practice in recent years. It is stated that the combination of reproductive and creative exercises is important in the formation of students' verbal speech communication. Such interactive method as educational game is marked as one of the most effective and widespread in pedagogical practice, including the following: "if I was a teacher", "competitions of experts", "detectives", "deepening of essence", "generalization", "brainstorming", "ask a question", "role embodiment". Within the framework of solving the problem of forming the ability for verbal communication of foreign students approximate variants of situations that can bring them closer to establishing contacts with native Ukrainian speakers are considered. The importance of controlling the academic achievements of foreign students in the process of mastering linguistic means of communication, based on the principles of science and efficiency, hierarchical organization, objectivity, systematicity, fairness and comprehensiveness is highlighted.