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15.04.2014 telc GmbH 1 Assessment for the workplace: the new German test for doctors Sibylle Plassmann telc language tests ALTE Paris, April 2014

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Page 1: Assessment for the workplace: the new German test for doctors

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Assessment for the

workplace:

the new German test for

doctors

Sibylle Plassmann

telc – language tests

ALTE Paris, April 2014

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telc Deutsch B2∙C1Medizin

High stakes: licence to practice medicine

Target group: international doctors in a

German-speaking hospital

Aim: to test language use at the workplace

Four skills

Dual-level: B2 and C1

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Doctors should just do their job.

Language is a fundamental tool of the trade.

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Doctors need Greek, Latin − and English.

The patients' language is German.

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Latin: appendix

English: appendix

German: Blinddarm

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Medical jargon is a question of vocabulary.

Medical jargon has distinctive conventions on

every level.

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Begleitend zeigte sich eine Ptosis des Augenlides

auf der betroffenen Seite, sowie eine ausgeprägte

Lakrimation und konjunktivale Injektion

ipsilateral.

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"How do I tell them to take their clothes off?"

Jetzt würde ich Sie gerne untersuchen. Dafür möchte ich Sie bitten, sich

bis auf die Unterwäsche auszuziehen.

Bitte machen Sie den Oberkörper frei. Den BH können Sie anbehalten.

Würden Sie sich bitte oben herum frei machen?

Würden Sie bitte den Oberkörper frei machen, damit (ich Sie abhören

kann).

Ziehen Sie bitte alles bis auf die Unterwäsche aus.

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Doctors need straightforward language.

Doctors need to use different varieties of speech.

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Doctors do not write.

Documentation takes more and more time.

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Dictation?

Text modules?

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Writing task 1

Input:

fact sheet about a

patient

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Writing task 1

Output:

Discharge note

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Writing task 2

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Output:

Informal email

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Language learning is easy for doctors.

Even doctors need more than just three months

to reach C1.

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Only doctors can assess doctors.

A valid certification of language competence

requires expertise in languages.

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The CEFR doesn't work as a reference system.

Adapted CEFR descriptors make differentiated

assessment possible.

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A test is not enough…

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Intensive communication with stakeholders:

Teacher training

Course curriculum

Learning material

Information of decision makers: polititics,

medical associations, employers

Support for test takers

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Contact

Dr. Sibylle Plassmann

+49-(0)69-956246-52

[email protected]

telc GmbH

Bleichstr. 1

60313 Frankfurt

Germany

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www.telc.net

http://www.telc.net/landingpage/

medizin/