Conveners
Medicine
- Tatjana Zakutajeva (Riga Stradins University)
- Ilze Ruža
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...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
