Peter Roger

International Conference 2019
Featured Session

What Can ELT Learn from Medical Education…and What Can They Learn from Us?

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As language teachers, many of us look only within our own discipline for new ideas about how to approach our teaching, despite the fact that there are similar challenges involved in the learning of skills and knowledge in all areas of human endeavor. The changing landscape in medical education has many striking parallels with developments in language education. Recent trends in medical education include an evolving emphasis on outcomes, patient autonomy, and students working through messy “real world” clinical problems rather than memorizing discretely packaged facts. In this presentation, I will examine some of these learning approaches and suggest ways in which we, as ELT practitioners, might draw on them in our work with language learners. Where the medical education pendulum has arguably swung too far in a rush to abandon traditional approaches, I will outline lessons that medicine could learn from experiences in the sphere of ELT pedagogy.

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Biographical Sketch

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Peter Roger is the director of Programs in Applied Linguistics and TESOL at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. Originally a medical graduate from the University of Sydney, he went on to complete a PhD in communication sciences and disorders. Drawing upon his dual backgrounds in medicine and applied linguistics, his research interests lie in the field of health communication, with a particular focus on topics relating to linguistic diversity.  Dr. Roger also has a publication and PhD supervision profile in the area of second language acquisition, where his specific interests concern the links between language learning, motivation, and identity, particularly as these issues relate to today’s rapidly globalizing world. He is co-author (with Sally Candlin) of Communication and Professional Relationships in Healthcare Practice (Equinox, 2013).

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Peter Roger Media Online

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Article: Blending Disciplines: A Journey from Medicine to Applied Linguistics
(The English Connection, Autumn 2019)
PDF available at bottom of page.

Personal Profile: Macquarie University
https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/peter-roger

Peter Roger's participation in the 2019 Korea TESOL International Conference is sponsored by Macquarie University.