33.1350, FYI: Technology for Medical Language Assessment: Transdisciplinary Perspectives

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Subject: 33.1350, FYI: Technology for Medical Language Assessment: Transdisciplinary Perspectives

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Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2022 06:22:42
From: Saina Kiani [saina.kianiasiabar at ucalgary.ca]
Subject: Technology for Medical Language Assessment: Transdisciplinary Perspectives

 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton

Series: Trends in Applied Linguistics [TAL]

Volume editors:  Robert C. Johnson, M. Gregory Tweedie, & Saina Kiani

Aim of the book. 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.  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.

Potential chapter topics. Contributors to Technology for medical language
assessment will be invited to take a transdisciplinary. reflective and
critical stance on the intersection of topics such as the following. 

- Healthcare communication where English is a medical lingua franca:
opportunities and challenges
- Critical perspectives on remote, online assessment of healthcare language
and skills: critical perspective and practical considerations
- Ethical considerations in international recruitment of healthcare
professionals
- Applications, promises and perils of machine learning for healthcare
language testing
- Academic integrity in high stakes automated scoring in language testing for
healthcare 
- Remote proctoring technologies, digital privacy and the honor system in
healthcare language assessment 
- The "black box": equity in an age of advanced statistical modelling for
medical language testing
- Mergers and acquisitions: standards of English in remote testing
- Algorithmic bias and the digitizing of linguistic prejudice:  applications
to language assessment for healthcare
 

Focus of chapter proposals. 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
all three central foci of the book: healthcare communication, assessment and
technology.

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.  

Submitting a chapter proposal. Interested authors are invited to send a
500-word chapter proposal, explaining how their proposed chapter addresses all
three central topics of the book (healthcare communication, language
assessment and technology) by April 30, 2022, to the book editors. 

Robert C. Johnson: johnsor at ucalgary.ca
M. Gregory Tweedie: gregory.tweedie at ucalgary.ca
Saina Kiani: saina.kianiasiabar at ucalgary.ca
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)





 



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