Challenges and opportunities in teaching professional english to medical students: a comprehensive approach in the era of distance learning

Abstract

Given the urgent need to master foreign languages, in particular English, the importance of their study is growing. However, mastering any language is associated with difficulties that arise at various stages of this process. Also, due to the large number of methods and techniques of learning foreign languages, inherent difficulties may arise. In addition to this range of problems, we will also consider questions that arise during the study of professional English by students of medical higher education institutions. Despite the similarity with problems of the general level, the specificity of the material and the scope of its application play a big role at the profile level. The transition to a distance learning format, caused first by the pandemic, and now by the war, also provoked psychological as well as long-term organizational problems