Joys, Challenges and Opportunities – Roundtable for Teachers of Foreign Languages and Latin-Greek Terminology at Faculties of Medicine

• Authors: DVOŘÁČKOVÁ Veronika; REŠKOVÁ Ivana; ŠVANDA Libor
• Year of publication: 2020
• Type: Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
• MU Faculty or unit: Language Centre

Description

Based on the assumption that LSP practitioners teaching at medical faculties operate in comparable contexts (highly intelligent but busy students, limited number of lessons allocated to languages and medical terminology, high or unknown expectations of faculty management), in this session we wanted to share good practice in the following areas:

• current trends in the creation of course materials: i) course content: professional, academic, general language, ii) identifying, accessing and didactizing input materials, iii) "general medical" courses vs. courses tailored to individual needs of a study programme, iv) continuous update of course content with reference to a) fast developments in LSP, b) student feedback, c) medicine and healthcare, d) medical and allied health professions, etc.
  
• current trends in teaching medical terminology and foreign languages: i) language mediation, ii) translation equivalents, etc.
  
• current trends in assessing student knowledge: i) end of year, ii) continuous, iii) portfolio, iv) task-based, etc.
  
• specifics of teaching national languages to international students for the purposes of doctor-patient communication during hospital internships in host countries