SRPSKI KAO STRANI JEZIK MEDICINSKE STRUKE: LEKSIČKI POTENCIJAL UDžBENIKA NAMENjENIH POČETNOM NIVOU

Abstract

The subject of this paper refers to Serbian as a foreign language for specific purposes, and Serbian is considered as a foreign language for the professional needs of medical students at the beginner level of knowledge. For now, we do not have a textbook specifically intended for students of the medical profession, therefore teachers rely on didactic resources provided for general courses. The aim of this paper is to examine the lexical potential of the existing textbooks for use in the beginner-level classes attended by medical students. The corpus consists of 12 textbook publications, published in Serbia and abroad between 1986 and 2011. The content analysis method and descriptive method are applied. The analysis of textbook contents at the beginner level related to health topics (parts of the body, going to the doctor, illness, treatment) shows that the corpus viewed as a whole has a high lexical potential. Existing textbooks make it possible to find lexical units and syntactic constructions suitable for teaching Serbian as a foreign language intended for medical students at the beginner level. The task of future research is to form courses in Serbian as a foreign language of the medical profession, as well as to create didactic tools aligned with the professional needs of healthcare workers.