Towards an integrated teaching-learning process in the general cycle of english at the medical universities

Abstract

Education and its improvement represent a main step to guarantee the continuity of the Revolution and the participation of all citizens in the different tasks oriented to preserve our achievements. This can only be obtained by means of a collective effort to elevate the integral general culture of future professionals.

The mastery of a foreign language so widely spread as English represents a professional and cultural need for students of Cuban Medical Universities because of the warm support they are supposed to give in different countries where this language is used for communication after they graduate.

Nevertheless, even when this need is widely recognized, reality shows a lot of dissatisfactions with the results obtained throughout the teaching-learning process of English that is developed in the Medical Universities. This situation can get worse in the present context where actions are devoted to open the university to different municipal sites; therefore, a rapid and efficient work is needed on the part of the pedagogical staff responsible for the social moulding of these professionals.

The adaptation and design of materials and the suggestions for teachers of English have represented a great effort that has brought us closer together the general objectives pretended. Nowadays, the different didactic components of the teaching-learning process of English in the general cycle have been revised and some transformations have been done from the practical and theoretical point of view. New ideas have been applied systematically in the University sites of Villa Clara and they can be seen as the bases of a new didactic structure for the teaching-learning of English during the general cycle at these Medical Universities.