Developing Sociolinguistic Competence in the Context of Blended Learning for Medical Purposes

Teodora Valova
Medical university – Pleven (Bulgaria)

Abstract. This paper examines improving sociolinguistic competence as a basic element of communicative competence in Second Language Acquisition. The study presents and analyzes data from research of “frequency” and “logic” properties of comparisons in Bulgarian language learning as foreign for medical students in blended learning environment with using literary texts. Methods of Scaling were used to carry out the study. The results and their analysis are relevant to establishing the didactic potential of learning in EasyClass online platform. Emphasis is placed on the role in mediating of literary text on the understanding of the specific rhetorical functions of comparisons and their extension into a middle linguistic register relevant to the purpose of patient-centered communication.
Keywords: sociolinguistic competence; second language acquisition; blended learning

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