THE SPECIFICS OF TEACHING LATIN ON VETERINARY FACULTIES OF AGRICULTURAL HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
This article is devoted to the features and benefits of teaching Latin on veterinary faculties of agricultural institutions of higher education. The position of the discipline in training programs for would-be specialists in «Veterinary», « Veterinary expertise», «Small domestic and exotic animals’ diseases» is determined. Both general didactical principles of new language presentation and specific features of medical and veterinary students training are considered as applied to agricultural institutions of higher education. The main peculiarity of professional training on veterinary faculties of agricultural higher institutions is prevailing of lexical aspects over grammar ones unlike teaching of Latin for lawyers, philologists and botanists. The order of grammar aspects such as verb, noun, and adjective is shown to be connected with the applied professional phenomena like recipes making, diagnosis discussing and anatomy studying. Particular attention is paid to the necessity of comparing of introduced lexical units with both Russian language and studied foreign language. The conclusion is made that this comparison enables the students to use Latin terms, names of organs, diseases and medicines accurately. Of great value is also the investigation of the principles of transliteration medicine names investigation. The author stresses the point that students of medical educational institutions as well as students of veterinary faculties of agricultural educational institutions should write the names of medicines in recipes automatically.