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Direct linkWu, Yi-Ju Ariel; Lan, Yu-Ju; Huang, Sin-Bao Paul; Lin, Yen-Ting R. – Educational Technology & Society, 2019
This study explores the effects of how collaborating in a virtual world (VW) enhanced learners' healthcare professional-patient communicative skills, including physician-patient and inter-professional communication in medical discourse. Through a quasi-experimental design case study, 47 Taiwanese Freshman English students from a College of…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Communication Skills, Interpersonal Communication, Medical Students
Download full textVega-Carrero, Sandra; Alejandro-Pulido, Manuel; Ruiz, Nancy Esther – Online Submission, 2017
This article presents the results of a research study conducted with college students at a University in Colombia that offers an online program of English as a Foreign Language. The goal of this study was to understand the students' perceptions. It mainly responded to the following research questions: Why do these students participate in an EFL…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computer Simulation
Fors, Uno G. H.; Courteille, Olivier – International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments, 2014
Healthcare professionals need good communication skills to be able to communicate with patients. In such provider-patient communication, the professional needs to be well understood by the patient, but also be able to understand subtle parts of a medical history taking dialogue with worried, sick or mentally affected patients. Virtual Patients…
Descriptors: Allied Health Personnel, Foreign Countries, Communication Skills, Swedish
