Medical English As A Lingua Franca

Author : M. Gregory Tweedie,Robert C. Johnson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110697025

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Medical English as a Lingua Franca by M. Gregory Tweedie,Robert C. Johnson Pdf

In this first book-length treatment of MELF, the authors assert that MELF represents an important contribution to our understanding of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), in that existing ELF research has been limited to relatively low stakes communicative situations, such as interactions in business, academia, internet blogging or casual conversations. Medical contexts, in contrast, often represent situations calling for exceptional communicative precision and urgency. Providing both evidence from their own research and analysis from (the limited number of) existing studies, the authors offer a counterpoint to the optimism regarding communicative success prevalent in ELF. The book proposes a theoretical perspective on how the various features of healthcare communication serve as important variables in shaping interaction among speakers of ELF, further enlarging our understanding of this emerging sub-field.

Author : M. Gregory Tweedie,Robert C. Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781527584815

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Perspectives on Medical English As a Lingua Franca by M. Gregory Tweedie,Robert C. Johnson Pdf

This edited volume brings together diverse international perspectives on the growing worldwide phenomenon of Medical English as a lingua franca, where speakers of other first languages use English as a vehicle for medical communication. A subset of the larger field of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), only a handful of studies of healthcare ELF communication have been published previously, despite its global expansion and potential impacts upon quality healthcare and patient safety. This book is inherently interdisciplinary nature, intersecting fields such as applied linguistics, English langua.

Author : M. Gregory Tweedie,Robert C. Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1527517160

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Perspectives on Medical English As a Lingua Franca by M. Gregory Tweedie,Robert C. Johnson Pdf

This edited volume brings together diverse international perspectives on the growing worldwide phenomenon of Medical English as a lingua franca, where speakers of other first languages use English as a vehicle for medical communication. A subset of the larger field of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), only a handful of studies of healthcare ELF communication have been published previously, despite its global expansion and potential impacts upon quality healthcare and patient safety. This book is inherently interdisciplinary nature, intersecting fields such as applied linguistics, English language teaching, medical education, and healthcare communication. The contributors and their research settings represent multiple national and linguistic backgrounds, and bring perspectives from their professional lives as healthcare workers and educators, and as language teachers and researchers. This volume contributes to filling a gap at the intersection of ELF and healthcare communication, and thus represents an area of study accessible to a broad range of professionals from numerous disciplines, and one that can be of benefit to multiple stakeholders: researchers, educators, healthcare institutions, and practitioners, as well as patients and their family members. The topics discussed in these pages will be of importance to a wide audience of readers, since accurate communication is at the centre of quality healthcare delivery.

Author : M. Gregory Tweedie,Robert C. Johnson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110697070

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Medical English as a Lingua Franca by M. Gregory Tweedie,Robert C. Johnson Pdf

In this first book-length treatment of MELF, the authors assert that MELF represents an important contribution to our understanding of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), in that existing ELF research has been limited to relatively low stakes communicative situations, such as interactions in business, academia, internet blogging or casual conversations. Medical contexts, in contrast, often represent situations calling for exceptional communicative precision and urgency. Providing both evidence from their own research and analysis from (the limited number of) existing studies, the authors offer a counterpoint to the optimism regarding communicative success prevalent in ELF. The book proposes a theoretical perspective on how the various features of healthcare communication serve as important variables in shaping interaction among speakers of ELF, further enlarging our understanding of this emerging sub-field.

Author : Goretti Faya Ornia
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-23
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781527506893

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A Handout on Medical English for Health Professionals by Goretti Faya Ornia Pdf

This book offers a guide to medical English, and is addressed to healthcare professionals and students with an upper-intermediate level of English. It will also be useful as a handout for specialised English courses offered in medicine, nursing, and physiotherapy degrees, and can be used as a self-study book. The book is made up of four chapters, structured into three sections: namely, grammar, science, and phonetics. Each chapter reviews the main points of English grammar, and works with the vocabulary of the medical field. The book also provides students with basic knowledge of phonetics, which will help them to improve their listening and speaking skills.

Author : Anna Mauranen,Elina Ranta
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443815819

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English as a Lingua Franca by Anna Mauranen,Elina Ranta Pdf

English as a lingua franca has become a hot topic in Applied Linguistics and English Studies. While it has been a subject of controversy for some time, linguistic observations on actual use have largely been missing out of the debate. This is now changing fast, and the study of English as a lingua franca has become a vibrant research field. This book reflects achievements in the growing field; it presents a good selection of empirical findings, thus providing substance to arguments. It comprises contributions from pioneers and established scholars in the field, along with reports from substantial ongoing research projects. The papers offer insights into the workings of English as a lingua franca in different contexts—conversational, academic, professional, and business situations. They tackle essential theoretical issues, analyse linguistic and interactional features of ELF, and discuss attitudes towards ELF. The studies are firmly anchored in analyses of authentic language in social interaction, some also using survey and interview data. Many papers also touch upon debates on language policy and linguistic ideologies. This collection of papers from the key areas of current ELF research will be of interest to English linguists and applied linguists, graduate and undergraduate students of English, educational and language planners, and teachers of English.

Author : Melodie Hull
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-16
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0803621655

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Medical English Clear and Simple by Melodie Hull Pdf

This book was written in response to the growing number of ESL (English as a Second Language) students enrolling in nursing and health professions programs, as well as the tremendous increase in foreign educated practitioners coming to North America to fill the health care deficit. The minimum competency need for Medical English cannot be solely met through the use of a medical terminology book. This book addresses the use of the term in a language and grammar context with a workbook format and multiple learning methods. The book uses a progressive approach that starts with basic exercises and covers standard situations in normal healthcare settings, and uses an easy-to-read writing style.

Author : Davi-Ellen Chabner
Publisher : Elsevier Australia
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0729537765

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The Language of Medicine by Davi-Ellen Chabner Pdf

For the adapted edition, spelling follows Australian medical terminology conventions and Australian pronunciations are given. The free CD-ROM includes exercise and audio pronunciations, all of which are with an Australian accent.

Author : Pius ten Hacken,Renáta Panocová
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443885096

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Word Formation and Transparency in Medical English by Pius ten Hacken,Renáta Panocová Pdf

As a side effect of the rapid progress in medical research and of the emergence of new medical conditions, medicine is a domain where new concepts have to be named more frequently than in many other domains. Because of the prominent position of English in medical research, most of these concepts are first named in English. This raises questions relating to the naming strategies adopted and the consequences of the choice of particular strategies. These consequences are not restricted to English, because the English terms often need to be translated and are sometimes borrowed. This volume consists of an introduction and eight chapters. The first four chapters focus on the choice of naming strategy and the consequences for the transparency of the resulting names in English. These chapters address the international pharmaceutical nomenclature, the terminology of psychiatry and of middle-ear surgery, and the use of neoclassical word formation. The following four chapters concentrate on the issues of translation and borrowing evolving from the choice of names in English. They address translation into Spanish, Slovak, Polish and Turkish.

Author : Jennifer Jenkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007-07-26
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UCSC:32106019496436

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English as a Lingua Franca: Attitude and Identity by Jennifer Jenkins Pdf

From the perspective of the speakers themselves, this is the first book to explore attitudes towards ELF in general and ELF accents in particular, their effects on ELF speakers' identities, and ways in which the problems can be addressed in teacher education, English language testing, and ELT materials.

Author : Jackie Bolen
Publisher : Jackie Bolen
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798201889036

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Medical English Dialogues by Jackie Bolen Pdf

Speak medical English fluently like a native speaker with these useful phrases, expressions, idioms and words for nurses, doctors, dentists, pharmacists and other medical professionals. What would it mean for your career to be able to speak and write freely in English when working in the medical industry? How about understanding more of what you hear or read? The idioms, phrases, words, and expressions in Medical English Dialogues are designed to improve your English quickly and easily. Jackie Bolen has fifteen years of experience teaching ESL/EFL to students in South Korea and Canada. She has written dialogues filled with helpful idioms and phrases in American English, plus each dialogue has a practice exercise. You'll improve your English vocabulary for the medical industry in no time at all! Pick up a copy of the book today if you want to... Interact more easily with your patients Learn some new English idioms and phrases Have a variety of authentic dialogues at your fingertips Improve your American English Speak English fluently and confidently Have some fun while learning English Pick up your copy of the book today. Medical English Dialogues: Clear & Simple Medical English Vocabulary for ESL/EFL Learners by Jackie Bolen will help you stay motivated while consistently improving your English skills.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 26924 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005-11-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780080547848

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Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics by Anonim Pdf

The first edition of ELL (1993, Ron Asher, Editor) was hailed as "the field's standard reference work for a generation". Now the all-new second edition matches ELL's comprehensiveness and high quality, expanded for a new generation, while being the first encyclopedia to really exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics. * The most authoritative, up-to-date, comprehensive, and international reference source in its field * An entirely new work, with new editors, new authors, new topics and newly commissioned articles with a handful of classic articles * The first Encyclopedia to exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics through the online edition * Ground-breaking and International in scope and approach * Alphabetically arranged with extensive cross-referencing * Available in print and online, priced separately. The online version will include updates as subjects develop ELL2 includes: * c. 7,500,000 words * c. 11,000 pages * c. 3,000 articles * c. 1,500 figures: 130 halftones and 150 colour * Supplementary audio, video and text files online * c. 3,500 glossary definitions * c. 39,000 references * Extensive list of commonly used abbreviations * List of languages of the world (including information on no. of speakers, language family, etc.) * Approximately 700 biographical entries (now includes contemporary linguists) * 200 language maps in print and online Also available online via ScienceDirect – featuring extensive browsing, searching, and internal cross-referencing between articles in the work, plus dynamic linking to journal articles and abstract databases, making navigation flexible and easy. For more information, pricing options and availability visit www.info.sciencedirect.com. The first Encyclopedia to exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics Ground-breaking in scope - wider than any predecessor An invaluable resource for researchers, academics, students and professionals in the fields of: linguistics, anthropology, education, psychology, language acquisition, language pathology, cognitive science, sociology, the law, the media, medicine & computer science. The most authoritative, up-to-date, comprehensive, and international reference source in its field

Author : Barbara Hoekje,Sara Tipton
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781780523859

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English Language and the Medical Profession: Instructing and Assessing the Communication Skills of International Physicians by Barbara Hoekje,Sara Tipton Pdf

International physicians in the United States now total more than 25 per cent of the physician workforce. This title offers a program for an English language curriculum that is specifically designed for the important and growing group of international medical professionals, with a focus on both instruction and assessment.

Author : Gretchen Bloom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : English language
ISBN : UVA:X001336614

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The Language of Medicine in English by Gretchen Bloom Pdf

Author : Peih-ying Lu,John Corbett
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-13
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781847697783

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English in Medical Education by Peih-ying Lu,John Corbett Pdf

This book addresses recent developments in medical and language education. In both fields, there have been methodological shifts towards 'task-based' and 'problem-based learning'. In addition, both fields have broadened their focus on clinical expertise and linguistic skills to address issues of cultural competence. English in Medical Education responds to these changes by re-imagining the language classroom in medical settings as an arena for the exploration of values and professional identity. The chapters cover topics such as the nature of cultural competence; how to understand spoken discourse in a range of medical settings; the use of tasks and problems in language education for medics; the development of critical skills and the use of literature and visual media in language education for doctors. It will interest everyone teaching English for Medical Purposes.