29.4457, Calls: English; Applied Linguistics/Spain

[The LINGUIST List]

LINGUIST List: Vol-29-4457. Tue Nov 13 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.4457, Calls: English; Applied Linguistics/Spain

Moderator: linguist at linguistlist.org (Malgorzata E. Cavar)
Reviews: reviews at linguistlist.org (Helen Aristar-Dry, Robert Coté)
Homepage: https://linguistlist.org

Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at:
           https://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/

Editor for this issue: Everett Green <everett at linguistlist.org>
================================================================


Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018 04:32:39
From: Catherine Richards [crichards.golini at gmail.com]
Subject: 4th English for Healthcare Conference

 
Full Title: 4th English for Healthcare Conference 

Date: 03-Oct-2019 - 04-Oct-2019
Location: Universitat Jaume I, Castello de la Plana, Spain, Spain 
Contact Person: Catherine Richards
Meeting Email: admin at ealthy.com
Web Site: http://www.ealthy.com 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2019 

Meeting Description:

This unique conference is dedicated to the teaching and learning of English
for healthcare. It aims to encourage an exchange of ideas to stimulate
discussion and to provide a platform for the presentation of new ideas,
approaches and material to the understanding of, and teaching of, language and
communication in healthcare.  
 
We welcome proposals that relate to classroom practice and proposals that are
research based and develop our understanding of how language is used in
medicine and healthcare. 
 
The conference attracts language teachers and communication skills trainers
working with health professionals (e.g. nurses, doctors, dentists,
radiographers, physiotherapists) both in training and in the workplace, and
practitioners from the medical translation and interpreting field.


Call for Papers:
 
Keynotes:   
Professor Elena Semino, Lancaster University, UK.
Professor Jim Parle, Birmingham University Medical School, UK.

Session Areas Include but are not limited to: 
 
- Content-Based and CLIL 
- Language Skills Training (Reading, Speaking, Listening, etc.)
- Teaching pronunciation for medicine
- Assessment (e.g. OET)
- Technology in the classroom
- Task-based and problem-based learning
- Academic medical English
- Writing for publication 
- Role plays/Simulation
- Corpora in the classroom  
- Lingua franca English in medicine
- EMI for medicine 
- Teacher professional development 
- Medical interpreting & translation                      
- Intercultural communication 
- Communication skills 
- Information writing for medicine 
 

Types of Sessions:

(Please indicate clearly which session category your proposal is for) 
 
- Workshop: A practical, hands-on session. 90 minutes 
- Practice-oriented Presentation: focused on classroom practice - 35 minutes,
to include up to 15 minutes questions 
- Research based Presentation: focused on completed research - 35 minutes, to
include up 15 minutes questions 
- Dialogue: An expert in a specific aspect of the field engaging and
interacting with the room (not a formal presentation format) - 35 minutes 
- Poster: Posters are especially suitable for academic research in progress
and completed.  We’re very keen to encourage such submissions.   Prizes will
be awarded for the best posters: Size A0 / A1 
 
 
Deadline for Receipt of Abstracts: 31 January, 2019 

Format:

- 200-300 words maximum (no references) 
- Do not use any special fonts, such as bold print or caps (italics fine) 
- Do NOT add tables, photos, or diagrams to your abstract 
- Do NOT indent your paragraphs, leave one space between paragraphs instead 
- Your abstract should clearly summarise the content of your session/poster 
- Please add your full name, email address and affiliation (or Private) to the
abstract 
- Please indicate which type of session you wish your abstract to be included
in (NB the organisers reserve the right to assign your presentation to a
different session type) 
- If the presentation is commercial in nature, this must be clearly indicated 
 
 
Please email your abstract to catherine at ealthy.com 
 
Receipt of your abstract will be acknowledged. 
 
If you don’t receive an acknowledgement within 24 hours, please get in touch
at crichards.golini at gmail.com




------------------------------------------------------------------------------

*****************    LINGUIST List Support    *****************
Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at:

              The IU Foundation Crowd Funding site:
       https://iufoundation.fundly.com/the-linguist-list

               The LINGUIST List FundDrive Page:
            https://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/
 


----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-29-4457	
----------------------------------------------------------