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14. Medical discourse as professional and institutional action

Challenges to teaching and researching languages for special purposes
  • Christopher N. Candlin
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Reflections on Language and Language Learning
This chapter is in the book Reflections on Language and Language Learning
© 2001 John Benjamins Publishing Company

© 2001 John Benjamins Publishing Company

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Language and language learning xi
  4. Arthur van Essen xix
  5. List of Arthur van Essen’s publications xxi
  6. List of Contributors xxxi
  7. Part One. History of Linguistics
  8. 1. Linguistics, historicism and the humanities 3
  9. 2. The man who knew too much 21
  10. 3. Applied linguistics, old and new 35
  11. 4. Karl Bühler’s child psychology 47
  12. Part Two
  13. 5. An exploration of the art and science debate in language education 63
  14. 6. Phonology, lexical semantics and syntax in aphasia and natural language acquisition in adulthood 75
  15. 7. Language teaching as political action 91
  16. 8. How’s this for fun? 105
  17. 9. Identity and differentiation of the lexicon through language corpora 119
  18. 10. ESP – a variety of English and/or a type of language course? 131
  19. 11. Categorising in discourse 141
  20. 12. SVOV in German and Dutch 155
  21. Part Three
  22. 13. Literacy in Dutch of poorly schooled adult immigrants from the Netherlands Antilles 171
  23. 14. Medical discourse as professional and institutional action 185
  24. 15. Content- and language-integrated learning, culture of education and learning theories 209
  25. 16. Content-based language teaching 221
  26. 17. Theoretical approaches to second-language learner varieties 237
  27. 18. The role of form in language learning 253
  28. 19. A methodology for evaluating the effectiveness of vocabulary treatments 267
  29. 20. The place of knowledge about language in the mother tongue and foreign language curriculum 279
  30. Part Four
  31. 21. Towards an alphabetical grammar of Modern Israeli Hebrew 295
  32. 22. The use of word frequency data in the teaching of English as an alternative/additional language 311
  33. 23. Helping advanced EFL learners improve their written English through self-correction tasks 325
  34. 24. A web-based foreign-language assistant 341
  35. 25. Subject didactics as the science of the foreign-language teaching profession 349
  36. Index 363
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.109.21can

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Language and language learning xi
  4. Arthur van Essen xix
  5. List of Arthur van Essen’s publications xxi
  6. List of Contributors xxxi
  7. Part One. History of Linguistics
  8. 1. Linguistics, historicism and the humanities 3
  9. 2. The man who knew too much 21
  10. 3. Applied linguistics, old and new 35
  11. 4. Karl Bühler’s child psychology 47
  12. Part Two
  13. 5. An exploration of the art and science debate in language education 63
  14. 6. Phonology, lexical semantics and syntax in aphasia and natural language acquisition in adulthood 75
  15. 7. Language teaching as political action 91
  16. 8. How’s this for fun? 105
  17. 9. Identity and differentiation of the lexicon through language corpora 119
  18. 10. ESP – a variety of English and/or a type of language course? 131
  19. 11. Categorising in discourse 141
  20. 12. SVOV in German and Dutch 155
  21. Part Three
  22. 13. Literacy in Dutch of poorly schooled adult immigrants from the Netherlands Antilles 171
  23. 14. Medical discourse as professional and institutional action 185
  24. 15. Content- and language-integrated learning, culture of education and learning theories 209
  25. 16. Content-based language teaching 221
  26. 17. Theoretical approaches to second-language learner varieties 237
  27. 18. The role of form in language learning 253
  28. 19. A methodology for evaluating the effectiveness of vocabulary treatments 267
  29. 20. The place of knowledge about language in the mother tongue and foreign language curriculum 279
  30. Part Four
  31. 21. Towards an alphabetical grammar of Modern Israeli Hebrew 295
  32. 22. The use of word frequency data in the teaching of English as an alternative/additional language 311
  33. 23. Helping advanced EFL learners improve their written English through self-correction tasks 325
  34. 24. A web-based foreign-language assistant 341
  35. 25. Subject didactics as the science of the foreign-language teaching profession 349
  36. Index 363
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