Teaching Romanian for medical foreign students with the help of Interactive methods

Abstract

The present study aims to highlight the importance of engaging in speaking activities as a primary method for teaching Romanian as a foreign language to overseas students. The results are strengthened by a questionnaire applied to students from the Faculty of Medicine and Dental Medicine in English. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, face-to-face classes were replaced by online ones which gave us, teachers, the possibility to use modern technology throughout our courses. The diversity of the topics included in the curriculum helped teachers to involve foreign students in different types of activities, such as speaking, interacting with their peers in order to develop elementary communication skills, but also new vocabulary learning. Even if students came from different countries and cultures, Germany, Spain, Italy, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Israel, Syria, or even Ghana, they all learned Romanian to be able to interact mainly with their colleagues or people they met in their day-to-day life.