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<div style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">Dear colleagues, </div>
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<div style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">My apologies for cross-posting. Please see the call for book chapter proposals, below. </div>
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<div style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">With thanks, </div>
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<div style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">M. Gregory Tweedie, Ph.D.
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University of Calgary<br>
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<div style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><a href="https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110697025/html?lang=en" title="https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110697025/html?lang=en">new book: Medical English as a
lingua franca</a><br>
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<div style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><b>Call for chapter proposals</b>: <i>Technology for medical language assessment: transdisciplinary perspectives</i> </div>
<div style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><b>Publisher</b>: De Gruyter Mouton</div>
<div style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><b>Series</b>: <a href="https://www.degruyter.com/serial/tal-b/html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" title="https://www.degruyter.com/serial/tal-b/html" data-linkindex="2" style="margin:0px">Trends
in Applied Linguistics [TAL]</a></div>
<div style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><b>Volume editors</b>: Robert C. Johnson, M. Gregory Tweedie, & Saina Kiani</div>
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<div style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:black"><b>Aim of the book.</b> The purpose of this edited volume is to present current research that lies at the intersection of healthcare
communication, global migration, and the rapidly expanding technologies used for language testing. The global COVID-19 pandemic accelerated at a dizzying pace tectonic shifts already well under way: English - for better or for worse - as the language of international
healthcare collaboration; the trans-global flow of healthcare professionals across international borders; the scramble to remote and online delivery of healthcare education and skills assessment; and the accelerated application of artificial intelligence technologies
such as neural networks and deep learning to assessing language proficiency in general, and medical language in particular. <span style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">The particular significance of this book lies
in its interdisciplinary nature, in its current relevance, and in its applicability to a wide audience of readers, given that effective communication - and the assessment of it - lies at the very core of quality healthcare delivery. The global migration of
healthcare professionals, the role of English as a medical lingua franca, and the rapidly increasing use of advanced, often "black box" technologies to assess language skills, we believe make this a very timely volume.</span></span><br>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Healthcare communication where English is a medical lingua franca: opportunities and challenges</span></li><li style="color:black;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;margin:0px">
<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Critical perspectives on remote, online assessment of healthcare language and skills: critical perspective and practical considerations</span></li><li style="color:black;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;margin:0px">
<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Ethical considerations in international recruitment of healthcare professionals</span></li><li style="color:black;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;margin:0px">
<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Applications, promises and perils of machine learning for healthcare language testing</span></li><li style="color:black;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;margin:0px">
<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Academic integrity in high stakes automated scoring in language testing for healthcare </span></li><li style="color:black;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;margin:0px">
<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Remote proctoring technologies, digital privacy and the honor system in healthcare language assessment </span></li><li style="color:black;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;margin:0px">
<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">The "black box": equity in an age of advanced statistical modelling for medical language testing</span></li><li style="color:black;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;margin:0px">
<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Mergers and acquisitions: standards of English in remote testing</span></li><li style="color:black;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;margin:0px">
<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Algorithmic bias and the digitizing of linguistic prejudice: applications to language assessment for healthcare</span></li></ul>
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<b>Focus of chapter proposals</b>. </span><span style="margin:0px">Contributors to this edited volume will be invited to reflect on issues that lie at the intersection of healthcare communication and technological applications for the assessment of medical
language proficiency. While we recognize and affirm the diversity of expertise and perspectives given the interdisciplinary nature of the edited volume, contributors will be asked to address how their particular chapter addresses
<b>all three central foci</b> of the book: <b>healthcare communication</b>, <b>assessment</b> and
<b>technology</b>.</span></div>
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<div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt">We welcome contributions using qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods research approaches, and from authors with diverse expertise including the various healthcare disciplines; computer and data science; computational
linguistics; critical linguistics; language testing; and others. <br>
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<div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt"><b>Submitting a chapter proposal</b>. Interested authors are invited to send a 500-word chapter proposal, explaining how their proposed chapter addresses
<b>all three</b> central topics of the book (healthcare communication, language assessment and technology) by
<b>April 30</b>, <b>2022</b>, to the book editors. </div>
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<li>Robert C. Johnson: rcjohnson70@icloud.com </li><li>M. Gregory Tweedie: gregory.tweedie@ucalgary.ca</li><li>Saina Kiani: saina.kiani@gmail.com </li></ul>
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<div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt"><span style="margin:0px"><b>Timeline</b>. Publication will then proceed along the following timeline. </span><br>
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<li>30 April 2022 - Deadline for receipt of 500-word chapter proposals</li><li>31 May 2022 - Decisions sent to authors: acceptance/rejection of chapter proposals </li><li>31 July 2022 - Deadline for receipt of authors’ 1st draft of chapter </li><li>30 September 2022 - Feedback on 1st draft sent to chapter authors</li><li>31 October 2022 - Deadline for receipt of authors’ 2nd draft of chapter</li><li>30 November 2022 - Feedback on 2nd draft sent to chapter authors</li><li>10 December 2022 - Deadline for receipt of final version of authors’ chapters</li></ul>
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