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Giampieri, Patrizia – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2020
This paper will present a translation project with second-year bachelor students together with some observational data. The students firstly translated an academic abstract from Italian (their first language) to English by using the language resources they were acquainted with. Then they translated a second abstract by using a pre-compiled offline…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, English for Academic Purposes, Translation, Undergraduate Students
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Zabala Unzalu, Igone; San Martin Egia, Itziar; Lersundi Ayestaran, Mikel – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2016
The aim of this article is to describe some theoretical and methodological bases underpinning the design of the course Health Communication in Basque (HCB) at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). Based on some relevant theoretical tenets of the socioterminologic and communicative approaches to Terminology, the authors assume that…
Descriptors: Biomedicine, Uncommonly Taught Languages, Language Variation, Vocabulary Development
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Plastina, Anna Franca – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2016
The need to teach medical students plain language for their future engagement in pain communication can no longer be underestimated. Pain education has traditionally neglected the teaching of pain language, yet patients' descriptive accounts have been acknowledged as the standard in medical care. English for Medical Purposes (EMP) can make its…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Medical Students, Pathology
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Renner, Julia – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2017
The present paper examines negotiation of meaning and language-related episodes in Chinese-German eTandem interaction, focusing on Chinese as target language. Against the background of the interactionist approach to language learning and drawing upon Swain and Lapkin's (1998, Interaction and second language learning: Two adolescent French…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, German, Chinese, Synchronous Communication