TEACHING MEDICAL STUDENTS’ PROFESSIONAL ENGLISH READING ON THE BASIS OF INDIVIDUAL COGNITIVE LEARNING STYLES

The article deals with the issue of developing future doctors' reading competency in professional English on the basis of individual cognitive learning styles. The notion “individual cognitive learning style” in the context of medi-cal students' professional training has been defined; the influence of the given notion on the efficiency of profession-al communicative competency development has been studied; the advantages of considering right and left hemi-spheres dominance as individual learning styles in the process of developing medical students' reading competency in professional English have been grounded. The effectiveness of the suggested methodology has been verified and con-firmed in the course of experimental teaching.