INFLUENCE OF THE PROFESSIONAL ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING QUALITY ON THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF A SUBJECT STUDY BY MEDICAL STUDENTS
The article analyzes some aspects of the influence of a teacher’s personality on the formation and development of students’ academic performance. The relevance of the study of personal qualities of a teacher as a guarantee of high-quality mastering of Professional English by medical students is justified in the article. On the background of this thematic area of theoretical and scientific concerns, our study tackles and develops specific aspects of the influence of the teaching skills on the quality of the content and objectives of Professional English language teaching in a medical institution of higher education. The article deals with the approaches of modern researchers to the professional activity of a teacher in a higher educational institution and presents a psychological perspective of the problem, taking into account the components of high-quality education. The involvement of the academics in the complex activities specific to higher medical educational process places the act of teaching Professional English among the defining priorities of meeting quality, national and international standards of academic medical education. As a defining activity aimed at the enhancement of the teachers’ competencies, teaching Professional English is a priority and decisive value across all the other disciplines which contribute to achieving the quality of higher medical education, being, in fact, the central intercultural core that provides substance, consistency and strength to the intercultural dimension of the academic medical education.