ENGLISH FOR PHARMACY: AN ESP COURSE IN A CLIL CONTEXT

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https://doi.org/10.22190/JTESAP1802265W

Abstract

This article deals with an ESP course taught as an obligatory subject in a pharmacy undergraduate degree programme in Spain. The language course is only one of the contexts involving disciplinary English as the degree programme integrates English in several content subjects. The ESP course is an attempt to find the right balance between students’ language needs, pharmacy-specific language skills, and the language-related demands of pharmacy content subjects which integrate English. The co-existence of ESP and CLIL teaching is seen as an opportunity for a closer cooperation and coordination with disciplinary experts to make connections between disciplines and activities towards better learning outcomes. We propose a course aimed at raising students’ language awareness through focused tasks which will cater to student’s communicative needs related to the two main themes of the course: chemistry and pharmaceutical care. 

Author Biographies

  • Monika Woźniak, Universidad San Jorge

    Monika Woźniak is a lecturer at San Jorge University in Spain where she teaches English for Specific Purposes in Pharmacy and Physiotherapy degree programmes. She graduated from the University of Gdańsk with a Master’s degree in English Philology and obtained her European PhD at the University of Jaén. She also completed a Master’s in Intercultural Communication, Interpretation and Translation in the Public Services (Polish-Spanish) at the University of Alcalá. Her main research interests include phraseology and culture, pedagogical and digital lexicography, as well as integrating content and language in higher education.

  • Desirée Acebes de la Arada, Universidad San Jorge

    Desirée Acebes de la Arada has a degree in English Philology from Universidad de León, a Master’s Degree in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language from Universidad de Alcalá and she is an accredited examiner of DELE (Diploma of Spanish as a foreign language).

    She is currently working on her doctoral thesis on the specialized language of Physiotherapy within the PhD program in Spanish Language and Literature from Universidad de Alcalá. She is a full-time lecturer at San Jorge University (Zaragoza), where she teaches English for Specific Purposes and Spanish as a foreign language.

    Her research interests include the analysis of English and Spanish for Specific Purposes (ESP) and language teaching and learning in the field of ESP.

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Published

2018-10-23

Issue

Vol. 6, No 2, Special Issue, 2018

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LSP