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Webinar Summary | Publishing Medical Research in English EALTHY

April 2023 | Discussion

In the webinar, she described her research into the importance of publishing medical research in English. She also suggested solutions, which could help non-native English-speaking medical scientists to improve their academic writing.

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Do L2 Learners Read Differently for Comprehension than for Translation? EALTHY

March 2023 | Research summary

A self-paced reading and translation task was used with learners of English as a second language (L2) to explore what sorts of information L2 learners use during online comprehension compared to native speakers, and how task (reading for comprehension vs. translation) and proficiency affect L2 comprehension.

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Webinar | Writing Scientific Articles by Non-native English Speakers EALTHY & Specialist Language Courses

March 2023 | Webinar

Csilla was a speaker at the 5th English for Healthcare Conference, where she gave a hugely interesting and always relevant talk on writing scientific articles in English, a lingua franca of medicine and science, by non-native English speakers.

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What Makes an Academic Text in English More Accessible? EALTHY

March 2023 | Research summary

The study creates a clearer conceptualisation of the processes involved in intuitive text simplification and suggests a set of pedagogical guidelines that can be used in language teacher training for both general and specific English teaching purposes, as well as in training and support of English-medium instruction (EMI) teachers.

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Webinar Summary | The Roles of a Pharmacist EALTHY

March 2023 | Discussion

In this article, you will read about the main responsibilities, requirements, and skills of a pharmacist as defined by the NHS and General Pharmaceutical Council, and the roles in a hospital and commercial pharmacies in European countries compared to the USA, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. In the second part, we provide a summary of the personal experience of Katie Booth, interviewed by Virginia Allum in the webinar. They discussed Katie´s career path, the roles she accepted, and her reflections on how a pharmacist-patient relationship and the language they use have changed in recent years.

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Examining the Linguistic Features of Adherent and Non-adherent People with Diabetes Using Multidimensional Analysis EALTHY

February 2023 | Research summary

Using multidimensional analysis, this study analyzed talk to compare linguistic features used by adherent and non-adherent individuals with diabetes.

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Webinar: How Has the Language of Pharmacy Changed? EALTHY & Specialist Language Courses

January 2023 | Webinar

Experts Virginia Allum and Katie Booth are giving a free webinar on How the language of Pharmacy has changed.

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Scaffolding L2 Academic Reading and Self-Regulation Through Task and Feedback EALTHY

January 2023 | Research summary

Research has shown that classroom-based reading strategy training does not necessarily result in effective, self-regulated reading behaviours when students engage with authentic academic reading in their own study contexts.

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Webinar: Developing a Medical Ethics Reasoning Skills Course EALTHY & Specialist Language Courses

December 2022 | Webinar

Alan Simpson was a speaker at the 5th English for Healthcare Conference. In the webinar, he will share the students’ start-of-life, therapeutic relationship, end-of-life, genetics and human research opinions, reflections and presentations.

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