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Изграждане на социолингвистична компетентност в контекста на смесеното обучение за медицински цели
Developing Sociolinguistic Competence in the Context of Blended Learning for Medical Purposes

Author(s): Teodora Valova
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Education, Foreign languages learning, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Phonetics / Phonology, Language acquisition, Cognitive linguistics, Vocational Education, Adult Education, Higher Education , Philology, Inclusive Education / Inclusion, Stylistics
Published by: Национално издателство за образование и наука „Аз-буки“
Keywords: sociolinguistic competence; second language acquisition; blended learning

Summary/Abstract: This paper examines improving sociolinguistic competence as a basic element of communicative competence in Second Language Acquisition. The study presents and analyzes data from research of “frequency” and “logic” properties of comparisons in Bulgarian language learning as foreign for medical students in blended learning environment with using literary texts. Methods of Scaling were used to carry out the study. The results and their analysis are relevant to establishing the didactic potential of learning in EasyClass online platform. Emphasis is placed on the role in mediating of literary text on the understanding of the specific rhetorical functions of comparisons and their extension into a middle linguistic register relevant to the purpose of patient-centered communication.

  • Issue Year: 46/2019
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 263-274
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Bulgarian