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Record W4405262509 · doi:10.24193/subbphilo.2024.4.05

OPTIMIZING FRENCH FOR HEALTH SCIENCES: A NEEDS-BASED APPROACH TO COURSE CONTENT

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Ariel-Sebastián MERCADO

Bibliographic record

VenueStudia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philologia · 2024
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicHealthcare Systems and Practices
Canadian institutionsMcGill UniversityMcGill University Health Centre
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCourse (navigation)Content (measure theory)Computer scienceMathematics educationPsychologyMathematicsEngineering

Abstract

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Optimizing French for Health Sciences: A Needs-Based Approach to Course Content. Since the release of John Swales' seminal work, Genre Analysis: English in Academic and Research Settings (1990), the notions of genre and genre analysis have significantly influenced teaching methodologies in language for specific purposes (LSP). Through genre analysis, LSP professors can determine the structure of genres and what the most important oral and written genres in a specific professional field are. In 2006, McGill University started offering elective French courses to students from different areas of the Faculty of Health Sciences. Many McGill students are native English speakers from various regions of Canada and the United States, as well as international students whose first language is not necessarily English. In Quebec, students who did not complete their secondary education in French are required to pass an exam demonstrating a minimum B2 proficiency level in French, according to the CEFR, to be eligible to work in the province. Keeping this reality in mind, the question that arises is which genres should be taught in French for healthcare. Therefore, the objective of this paper is to determine the most important written and oral genres in French for healthcare and which ones are the most relevant for McGill University learners. To accomplish this objective, a review of the literature was conducted, followed by an analysis of relevant textbooks. Finally, a group of healthcare professionals was interviewed. At the conclusion of this paper, recommendations are made for the most important written and oral genres in health sciences that should be incorporated into the syllabus of our B2 level French for health sciences courses. REZUMAT. Optimizarea limbii franceze pentru științele sănătății: O abordare bazată pe nevoi pentru conținutul cursului. De la publicarea lucrării revoluționare a lui John Swales, Genre Analysis: English in Academic and Research Settings (Swales 1990), conceptele de gen și analiza genului au condus la schimbări în metodologia de predare a limbajului pentru scopuri specifice (LSP). Prin analiza genului, profesorii de LSP pot determina structura genurilor și care sunt cele mai importante genuri orale și scrise într-un domeniu profesional specific. În 2006, Universitatea McGill a început să ofere cursuri opționale de limba franceză studenților din diferite domenii ale Facultății de Științe ale Sănătății. Mulți dintre studenții McGill sunt vorbitori nativi de limba engleză din diferite părți ale Canadei și Statelor Unite sau studenți internaționali a căror limbă maternă nu este neapărat engleza. În provincia Quebec, este obligatoriu ca studenții care nu și-au finalizat studiile secundare în limba franceză să treacă un examen care să ateste un nivel minim de B2 conform CEFR pentru a putea lucra în această provincie. Ținând cont de această realitate, întrebarea care se ridică este: care genuri ar trebui predate în limba franceză pentru domeniul sănătății? Prin urmare, obiectivul acestui studiu este de a determina cele mai importante genuri scrise și orale în limba franceză pentru domeniul sănătății și care dintre acestea sunt cele mai relevante pentru studenții de la Universitatea McGill. Pentru a atinge acest obiectiv, s-a realizat o revizuire a literaturii, urmată de o analiză a manualelor relevante. În final, a fost intervievat un grup de profesioniști din domeniul sănătății. La finalul acestui articol, sunt făcute recomandări cu privire la cele mai importante genuri scrise și orale din domeniul științelor sănătății care ar trebui incluse în programa cursurilor de franceză pentru științele sănătății la nivel B2. Cuvinte-cheie: limba franceză pentru științele sănătății, franceza pentru asistență socială, franceza pentru scopuri specifice, genuri în franceza pentru științele sănătății Article history: Received 14 February 2024; Revised 5 July 2024; Accepted 15 October 2024; Available online 10 December 2024; Available print 30 December 2024.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.895
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0030.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.253
GPT teacher head0.469
Teacher spread0.216 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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