Foreign students’ education peculiarities dependently on reflexivity/impulsivity in them

Abstract

Our work aim was assessing the peculiarities of such a personality cognitive style parameter as reflexivity/impulsivity in Poltava state medical university foreign students dependently on their interhemispherical asymmetry profile as well as determining the most effective pedagogical means while working with them. The research tasks: 1) Assessing the reflexivity/impulsivity in the different-gendered foreign students dependently on their interhemispherical asymmetry individual profile indexes (in real dexters, sinisters real, hidden and unreal, ambidexters). 2) To analyze the teachers’ most effective pedagogical means and the students’ favorite educative ways. Right-handed students in the examined students’ group were reflexive more due to analysis as their dominant left hemisphere feature, while the left-handed ones – impulsive more because right hemisphere dominant in them uses synthesis as its thinking operation. Favorite pedagogical means were described and analyzed taking into account the foreign students’ interhemispherical asymmetry individual profile as well as dominant hemispheres psycho-physiological and psychological peculiarities and foreign languages management various level in the English- and Russian-educating students. The data received were found to be essential to create maximal individualized approach in educating the foreign students.