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The article discusses specific aspects of medical research texts. The author argues that academicity is one of the basic properties of research medical texts and analyses the way it is manifested in Russian research papers of the medical corpus. The study involves full-text medical articles published in the peer-reviewed scientific and practical journal “Bulletin of Siberian Medicine”, which is included in international databases. The coefficient of lexical diversity, lexical, grammatical and stylistic means of academicity manifestation are the main parameters for the study. Quantitative analysis demonstrates that Russian-language texts are characterized by a higher coefficient of lexical diversity and contain more unique lexemes than texts of the English-language corpus. Special attention is paid to the use of first-person pronouns: their number is relatively low, which indicates that the researchers’ position is not actively expressed in the papers. Other aspects that are considered to be manifestations of the academic style in the texts of the Russian-speaking authors are as follows: the use of a significant number of adjectives and international character of the texts, which is due to the presence of a large number of cognate words. In general, it is noted that academic style is manifested at all levels of text organization. The study has important applied value, since the knowledge of the properties of the academic style will help healthcare professionals to create high-quality articles for presentation of the results of their research.

Since the establishment of normal education in the late Qing Dynasty, in the course of 100 years of development, China's normal education system has been changing between the cultivation of teachers in independent normal colleges and schools and the cultivation of teachers in non-independent institutions. After a long period of practice and exploration, the normal education system with Chinese characteristics has been formed that teachers are mainly trained by normal colleges and universities, and high-level non-normal universities participate in teacher training. The reform of the normal education system in the past hundred years has been accompanied by the dispute on the ideas of normal education. The core issue of the dispute is the relationship between normality and academicity in teacher training. Looking through the historical phenomena of the dispute, it can be found that there are some misunderstandings in the dispute behind the reform of the normal education system as follows: the practical requirements of the construction of the teacher training system are made regardless of the level of teachers, teaching equates to educating people, and the promotion of academic qualifications equates to specialization. The normal education system with Chinese characteristics integrates the two types of teacher training systems, which eliminates the dispute on the ideas of normal education, but does not fundamentally resolve the conflict of the ideas. Therefore, in the process of teacher training, both normal colleges/ universities and high-level non-normal universities need to make accurate positioning, correctly grasp the era connotation of normality, specifically analyse and actually deal with the relationship between normality and academicity, and strive to improve the educational ability of future teachers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]