Teaching writing of scientific abstracts in English: CLIL methodology in an integrated English and Medicine course

• Autores: Philippa Mungra
• Localización: Ibérica: Revista de la Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos ( AELFE ), ISSN-e 2340-2784, ISSN 1139-7241, Nº. 20, 2010, págs. 151-166
• Idioma: inglés
• Títulos paralelos:
  • La redacción de resúmenes de artículos científicos en inglés: metodología AICLE dentro de un curso integrado de ingl.s y medicina
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  • español

    Uno de los distintos cursos metodológicos que se imparten en la Facultad I de la Universidad de Roma �La Sapienza� tiene por objetivo desarrollar enfoques que permitan a los médicos dar respuesta a las dudas que les plantean los pacientes. Dicho curso comprende diversas disciplinas, como son: patología, inmunología, métodos estadísticos aplicados a las ciencias médicas, medicina interna y lengua inglesa, y, entre otros, pretende dotar a los alumnos, todos ellos hablantes nativos italianos, de destrezas de búsqueda y evaluación de bibliografía médica a fin de facilitar esas respuestas requeridas por los pacientes relativas a los riesgos y la eficacia de determinadas terapias. En el presente trabajo se describe cómo se ha llevado a cabo la integración de los contenidos relacionados con la lengua inglesa en dicho curso metodológico y, además, se ofrecen una serie de líneas generales relativas al empleo de una metodología de aprendizaje integrado de contenidos y lenguas extranjeras (AICLE) destinada a formar a los alumnos en la redacción de resúmenes tipo abstract característicos de los artículos de investigación que se publican en el área. Se presenta y estudia un corpus de extractos redactados por los propios alumnos con la finalidad de elaborar un modelo pedagógico encaminado a la didáctica de lenguas dentro del plan de estudios médicos italiano.

  • español

    In the I Faculty at the University of Rome �La Sapienza� Medical School, one of the several methodology courses aims at developing approaches by physicians to patient queries. One such course comprises several disciplines: Pathology, Immunology, Medical Statistics, Internal Medicine and English, with the specific aim of furnishing students, all Italian speakers, with skills for searching and evaluating the medical literature for answers to patient queries regarding risks and effectiveness of therapy. This paper describes the integration of English into a Methodology Course and delineates how the language component uses a Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) approach to train students to write the highly specific genre of journal abstracts for medical experimental research articles. A corpus of student writing is presented and discussed with the aim of furnishing one didactic model for language teaching within the Italian Medical Curriculum.

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