Login

5th International Symposium Language for International Communication (LINCS)

28–29 Apr 2022
Europe/Riga timezone

Session

Medicine

9
28 Apr 2022, 14:00

Conveners

Medicine

  • Tatjana Zakutajeva (Riga Stradins University)
  • Ilze Ruža

Presentation materials

There are no materials yet.

  1. 17. Reporting professional content in ESP: Problems and needs
    Liga Belicka (University of Latvia), Tatjana Bicjutko (University of Latvia)
    28/04/2022, 14:00
    Theory and methodology of LSP research
    Presenters (Oral Presentation) – Live ZOOM Presentation

    Reporting what other people said or wrote about is part and parcel of academic work, and, thus, appropriate use of reported speech is paramount to success in academic writing. Since reported speech is a dedicated syntactic domain (Spronck and Nikitina 2019), and creation of 'constructed discourse' (Tannen 2007) involves different kinds of deictic shift, the topic requires due attention when...

    Go to contribution page
  2. 51. Simulation-based medical English learning model – Bridging the gap between medical practice and university classroom
    Tatjana Zakutajeva (Riga Stradins University)
    28/04/2022, 14:20
    Education
    Presenters (Oral Presentation) – Live ZOOM Presentation

    “The mind is not a vessel that needs
    filling, but wood that needs igniting.”
    Plutarch, AD 46 – AD 120
    Introduction. Simulation is a technique to replace and amplify real experiences with guided ones, often “immersive” in nature, that evoke and replicate substantial aspects of the real world in a fully interactive fashion. Simulation-based language learning is a language learning model...

    Go to contribution page
  3. 94. Peculiarities of communication in medicine
    Ilze Ruža, Inta Līsmane (University of Latvia)
    28/04/2022, 14:40
    Medicine
    Presenters (Oral Presentation) – Live ZOOM Presentation

    This report analyzes the results of higher education, which are reflected in the knowledge, skills, social skills and values of university graduates, looking at the extent to which they meet the requirements of professional self-realization of the future doctor.
    The description of the professional communication process gives an idea of the situations that a medical student will come in...

    Go to contribution page
  4. 86. Fostering medical communication during the Covid-19 pandemic: an example of language mediation
    Dr Eva Braidwood (University of Oulu)
    28/04/2022, 15:00
    Medicine
    Presenters (Oral Presentation) – Live ZOOM Presentation

    The “Medical English” (English for Specific and Academic Purposes) course is compulsory for all first-year medical students at the University of Oulu. The course utilizes the action-oriented approach (CEFR-CV 2020) and introduces the concept of mediation to students by providing them with opportunities to learn and practice intra-linguistic and cross-linguistic mediation (from medical English...

    Go to contribution page
  5. 52. Online tools for individual study of medical vocabulary – selected challenges
    Agnieszka Dzieciol-Pedich (University of Bialystok), Agnieszka Dudzik (Medical University of Bialystok, Poland)
    28/04/2022, 15:20
    Medicine
    Presenters (Oral Presentation) – Live ZOOM Presentation

    The acquisition of lexis is an important part of language learning. It is also a vital component of English for Medical Purposes (EMP) education, as the knowledge of specialised vocabulary is considered integral to success in occupation-specific communicative activities. Expanding professional lexis is essential to help EMP learners understand the language and concepts of their academic or...

    Go to contribution page
  6. 90. The use of authentic texts in Language for Special Purposes
    Erika Jurišová, Ivana Kapráliková (Assistant Professor)
    28/04/2022, 15:40
    Medicine
    Presenters (Oral Presentation) – Live ZOOM Presentation

    The objective of the paper is to establish the relation between the use of authentic texts in the classes of Language for Special Purposes and the improvement of communicative abilities of students of tertiary education. At the university level, in particular, many teachers of Language for Specific Purposes become very much dependent on the published textbooks available, and even worse, when...

    Go to contribution page
Building timetable...