Language Integration in Health Sciences

ISBN-13: 9783330007048 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 52 str.

Somikazi Deyi

Opis

Language Integration in Health Sciences is an invaluable resource for language teachers and students becoming doctors. The book will assist language curriculum planners and language teachers to be aware of issues surrounding language in medicine, such as cultural nuances, difficulty in translating some of the health terms to isiXhosa, finding relative understanding of concepts that are difficult to translate and how this could jeopardise the language integration process. Further it makes recommendations through discussions that appear to synergise and/or contrast the standardization of isiXhosa in Health Sciences, the effects of the hlonipha (language of respect) language which is used by women to show respect in-laws of high standing who have passed to the next world and beliefs around that and the significance of offering a context specific language and cultural constraints in Health Sciences. The book offers suggestions and recommendations on dealing with challenges of language integration for effective teaching and effective learning.

O autorze

Somikazi Deyi is currently a lecturer in the African Languages Department at the University of Cape Town and, for five years, has been the course convener of isiXhosa in the Faculty of Health Sciences. Her work on multilingualism and language in education has been presented through a few articles, conference papers and chapters in books.