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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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Webinar Summary: Cognitive Linguistic Difficulties in Adults with Long COVID EALTHY

December 2022 | Webinar

Louise Cummings, Professor of Clinical Linguistics at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in China, presented results and implications of her research.

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Webinar Summary: Cognitive Linguistic Difficulties in Adults with Long COVID EALTHY

December 2022 | Discussion

Louise Cummings, Professor of Clinical Linguistics at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in China, presented results and implications of her research. She surveyed the nature of cognitive-linguistic difficulties by assessing language communication skills of 92 adults with Long COVID Syndrome, and healthy adults. In her webinar, Louise described manifestations of cognitive-linguistic difficulties, referred to as “brain fog”, which were reported by the participants.

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