Instructor

梁正溜、凌秋虹、蔡和兵、肖  英

Period

February 2014 – June 2014

Objective

To build up students’ oral competence and performance of English as a foreign language to learn at an advanced level while advancing their professional capability in clinical practice and raising their awareness of academic interest in doing research.

Materials

1. Student-made topic-related PPT presentations

2. Accompanying teaching video clips

3. Functional and notional language

Approaches

1. A PBL approach to a particular medical problem and medical discipline;

2. A DIY approach to the online pursuit of the topic-related medical advances and breakthroughs in the medical literature so that a particular focus or an insightful perspective can be formed on which to make an oral presentation in a unique way in the classroom;

3. A communicative approach to the simulated academic activities in class so that students can be immerged in the “real” situation with a view to promoting their language competence, medical profession and awareness of academic interest in doing research;

4. A supplemental approach to the acquisition of the functional and notional language for the skills of oral presentation as well as to the making of a PPT presentation, especially in terms of wording.

Requirements

1. Complete the required amount of video-based listening practice out of class;

2. Widen your horizon in the world of medical literature, especially in the high-impact journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet so as to raise your awareness of academic interest in doing research;

3. Accomplish four PPT assignments per person as required;

4. Get dynamically involved with any learning activity in the classroom (i.e. oral presentation, Q&A, role play, discussion, etc.);

5. Exercise your student-autonomy in learning as required by the DIY approach;

6. Improve your skills of making an oral presentation by acquiring the functional and notional language;

7. Enlarge your medical vocabulary and improve your sense of medical English;

8. Improve yourself in spontaneity, fluency and accuracy while speaking medically;

9. Ensure your attendance.

Evaluation

1. General Performance (oral presentation, Q&A , etc.) ....…..50%

2. Final (video-based listening comprehension & descriptive and summative responses)………………………..……50%