Using student performance data to develop an English course for clinical training  

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Storey, Anne ; Corcos, Robin ; Shi, Ling

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: English for Specific Purposes (Full Text) vol. 20 no. 3 (2001), page 267-292.
Topik: Curriculum development; EMP; Needs analysis
Fulltext: 20_03_Ling_Corcos_Storey.pdf (195.34KB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/ESP/20 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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This paper reports the development of an English course for medical students approaching the junior clerkship, the first part of their clinical training. Based on the transcripts of video and audio tapes of six I-hour sessions of ward teaching, the authors first investigated the cognitive demands placed on students as they participated in making diagnostic hypotheses with experienced doctors. They then identified the linguistic skills students needed in order to achieve various cognitive learning objectives. These included the skills of using appropriate everyday and technical terms to translate information from doctor-patient to doctor-doctor discourse, using verb tenses correctly to establish chronology in case reports, and describing location and procedure accurately in reporting physical examinations. In the course which was developed, video sequences were used along with carefully designed teaching tasks, firstly to raise students' awareness of some of the cognitive and linguistic features of the discourse, and secondly to improve students' performance through practice. The study illustrates how authentic data from student performance can be exploited to construct a tightly focused curriculum addressing students' needs.

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