Book chapter
INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL GRADUATES IN US HIGHER EDUCATION: AN OVERVIEW OF ISSUES FOR ESP AND APPLIED LINGUISTICS
Innovation and Leadership in English Language Teaching, pp 3-19
01 Jan 2011
Abstract
This chapter reviews the literature on language, culture, and communication issues in IMG education and practice. An English for specific purposes (ESP)/applied linguistics research agenda on these topics is proposed in order to situate IMG issues within a cross-cultural perspective on medical discourse, education, and communication. It is proposed that the flow of international medical graduates (IMGs) into U. S. graduate medical education has characteristics similar to that of international graduate teaching assistants (ITAs) coming into U. S. universities from the 1970s, and that much can be learned from the perspectives and frameworks developed by ESP and applied linguistics in that case.
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- Title
- INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL GRADUATES IN US HIGHER EDUCATION: AN OVERVIEW OF ISSUES FOR ESP AND APPLIED LINGUISTICS
- Creators
- Barbara J. Hoekje - Drexel UniversitySara M. Tipton - Wayne State Univ, English Language Inst, Detroit, MI 48202 USA
- Contributors
- B J Hoekje (Editor)S M Tipton (Editor)
- Publication Details
- Innovation and Leadership in English Language Teaching, pp 3-19
- Series
- Innovation and Leadership in English Language Teaching
- Publisher
- Emerald Group Publishing; BINGLEY
- Number of pages
- 17
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Communication
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000341838800002
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85051714103
- Other Identifier
- 991019168442404721
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- Web of Science research areas
- Education & Educational Research
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