English in Medical Education - An Intercultural Approach to Teaching Language and Values

This book addresses recent developments in medical and language education. Both fields have broadened their focus on clinical expertise and linguistic skills to address issues of cultural competence. The book re-imagines the language classroom in medical settings as an arena for the exploration of values and professional identity.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Peih-ying Lu is Associate Professor of English, Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow. She has published on intercultural language education in Taiwan, intercultural language education and citizenship, and on the use of art, literature and problem-based learning in medical education.
John Corbett is Professor of English at the University of Macau and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow. He has published widely on language education and on corpus-based linguistics. Among his books are An Intercultural Approach to English Language Teaching (Multilingual Matters 2003) and Intercultural Language Activities (Cambridge University Press, 2010).

Produktdetails

• Autoren: John Corbett, Peih-Ying Lu
• Verlag: Multilingual Matters
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 13.08.2012
• EAN: 9781847697752
• ISBN: 978-1-84769-775-2
• Seiten: 226
• Abmessung: 148 mm x 210 mm x 12 mm
• Gewicht: 299 g
• Serie: Languages for Intercultural Co
• Thema: Schule und Lernen > Sonstiges