Publications

Publication details [#60640]

Pena, Carmen and Mónica Olivares. 2015. Teaching health sciences students about culturally sensitive communication between health professionals and patients from diverse cultures. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 18 (1) : 113–126.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

foreign language acquisition | language and culture | mediation | medical conversation | multiculturalism

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

Class blogs inform students attending English for Physical Therapy at the Alcalá University about the significance of current immigration and mediators' role in public health settings. This teaching experience attempts to show that students can concurrently acquire a foreign language and meet multiculturalism in public health services.