TEACHING LATIN IN MEDICAL CONTEXT – MEANINGS FOCUSED
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.35120/kij5505941vKeywords:
Latin teaching, medical studies, languages, anatomyAbstract
The present teaching methodology getting with the programme at university, concentrates on pure
grammar categories and rules. The specialized vocabulary is given after the morphological part. In thus teaching
strategy, the specific orientation comes only through the given lexicological examples that illustrate and exercise
limited practical rules. The knowledge acquired by this teaching method gives uncertain results focused not on
terminology but mainly Latin declensions and use of prepositions.
An academic teaching should concentrate on the global aspects of Medical Latin and its references – the language of
basic medical disciplines and the historical formation of concepts. The innovative linguistic teaching for specific
purposes is a process of matching information from different field sources – practical, theoretical and historical
knowledge on the proper subject. A combination of information originating from different sources would expand the
general knowledge on the subject and result on formation of professional vocabulary in use and practical language
competencies. The multiple layers of medical language have been structured through the centuries from Antiquity to
modern times. The way teaching of medical Latin should be improved is by representing different aspects of its
formation, modern idiomatic use of specific structures and their influence to modern European languages in the
medical context. A new didactic approach to medical terminology involves:Illustrative materials, topographic
classification of terms, formed as specialized vocabulary, cultural aspects of the given knowledge – formation and
derivation of concepts.
Greek and Latin origins of language and cognition.Development of teaching units and lectures to facilitate
understanding and studding.The general goal is to build up an interdisciplinary impact among medical subjects in
favour of Medical Latin. To represent the network of terminology as subordinated structure and to form an
optimized teaching model. To give contributions to professional knowledge of first year students in order to prepare
them to get easier into the content of fundamental disciplines.
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