1 Introduction一English in Medical Education 1
2 Intercultural Communicative Competence in Medical Settings 15
Defining Intercultural Communicative Competence 17
Components of Intercultural Communicative
Competence: Savoirs and Resources 19
Intercultural Communicative Competence: National
and International Standards 22
Models of Cross-Cultural Competence in Medical Education 26
TACCT and the Savoirs 29
3 Task Design in Language and Medical Education 33
Task-based Learning in Intercultural Language Education 33
TBL and PBL 37
Intercultural Problem-based Learning 40
Intercultural Language Tasks for Medical Students:
Working with Children 46
Integrating Intercultural learning with PBL Scenarios 50
4 Exploring Medical Language 54
Healthcare Portals as a Source of Medical Language
and Content 56
Exploring Medical Language with Online Resources 58
Medical Terms in General Corpora: Frequency and Collocation 59
Insights from a Medical Corpus: Teenage Health Freak 66
Data Collection: Everyday Perspectives on Mental Health Care 68
Analysing Key Words to Show Salience 72
Language, Medicine and the Web 79
5 Medical Talk 81
Professional-Patient Interaction as Conversation 83
Presenting the Self 91
Mediation in Healthcare Consultations 95
Doctor-Doctor Talk 98
Patient Talk: Everyday Beliefs 101
Intercultural Framing 105
Intercultural Interactions in Medical Settings 115
6 Critical Cultural Awareness in Medical Education 117
Savoir s’’Esgager: Critical Cultural Awareness 117
Different Perspectives on Illness and Disease 119
Power and Authority in Medical Encounters 121
Curing and Healing, Disease and Illness 123
Medical Pluralism in Japan 125
The Healthcare Professional as Ethnographer 129
Illness and Metaphor 131
Birth in Different Cultures 131
7 Literature and Language in Medical Education 139
W妙the Medical Humanities? 140
Resources for Teaching the Medical Humanities 143
Selecting Appropriate Texts 145
Task Design: Medicine, Literature and Intercultural
Language Education 148
Monitoring Student Responses and Developing
Literary Skills 153
8 The Visual Arts in Medical Education 157
Images in Language and Medical Education 158
Developing Visual Literacy 160
A Case Study: From Visual Analysis to Cultural Research 168
From Art as Image to Art as Concept and Practice 172
Moving Images: Film and Television 173
9 Course Design for Intercultural Language Education in Medical
Settings 178
Principles of English for Specific Purposes 179
Environment Analysis 182
Needs Analysis 183
Curricular Goals 186
Content and Sequencing 188
Format and Presentation of Learning Materials 190
Monitoring and Assessment 193
Evaluation 195
Conclusion 196
References 197
Index 212
