The use of video resources in teaching students-managers the English language at the medical university
Introduction . This article discusses the peculiarity of the video resources use in teaching the English language at the medical university. The authors note the trend of the active use of video resources in professional training. The advantages of video resources for the educational process at the modern university are described in detail. Purpose . To analyze the peculiarity of the video resources use in teaching students-managers the English language at the medical university. To achieve our purpose, we set the following tasks: 1) to analyze and systematize the scientific and methodological literature relevant to the set topic; 2) to analyze the published scientific articles on the theory and methodology of teaching foreign languages using interactive methods and educational media resources (media resources); 3) to study the video resources of the video hosting site YouTube for the analysis of the material on the current topic of the curriculum in English for students-managers at the medical university on the example of the Volgograd State Medical University. Materials and methods. Electronic video resources from YouTube - the video hosting site that provides users with the services of storage, delivery and display of video. Methods used in our research are continuous sampling, analysis and synthesis. The methodological basis for our article is represented by the works of such contemporary authors as: Antonova I. V., 2011; Gudkova S. A., Yanitskiy A. I., 2017; Kochneva E. M., Zharova D. V., 2017; Krayneva N. M., Zolotova M. V., Grishakova E. S., 2016; Rachkovskaya L. A., 2018; Tretyak S. V., Antonova N. Yu., 2018; Khristolyubova A. A., 2016. Results, discussion . Video stimulates students' interest in learning, expands their knowledge of the linguistic and cultural characteristics of the foreign language, and provides effective material for the following discussion. Video resources impart listening and speaking skills, they have the advantage over audio and print information. Conclusion . Visual information allows you better to understand and consolidate factual information, linguistic features of speech, activates attention and memory. As the additional tool, video improves the quality of teaching process.