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Life-Long-Learning Framework for Life-Long-Learning Framework for Medical University Teaching StaffMedical University Teaching Staff

Linguistic GroupLinguistic Group

Sabine EhrhartSabine Ehrhart

«Tongue»

• A part of the body, thus part of a medical approach; there is an oppostion between mother tongue <-> to speak in foreign tongues

• The learning of foreign languages: a striking exemple of «transplantation», be this partial or complete

Additive or substractive bilingualism

Substractive: extraction of one element (one language) and replacement by another one

Our approach is additive: we keep our mother tongue and we add a new one

How do we get access to languages?

• Language acquisition is natural and mainly implicite and happens during the first years of our life, in this situation, our first language(s) represent our only way to communicate with our environment

• Language learning is explicite and in most cases fostered through institutional means, it is often a free choice (more or less) for older learners (not infants) and it is more effective if it is also linked to the social environment

Communicational efforts

• Both ways, language acquisition and language learning, need energy

• The motivation to learn is strenghtened if there is a link to our personal culture and identity.

Our central research question in the linguistic group

How can we create a motivating environment for adult learners of a foreign

language?

Our objectives for construction: Harmony and Sustainability

Building up motivation through interlinguistic activities

4 elements needed for a successful construction

•A building plan of high quality•Active workers in a motivating environment•Excellency of building material according to the needs•Sharing of the outcomes

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Our building plan

2 Our human workforce: Active members of the linguistic group

• General Coordinator : Professor Sabine Ehrhart, Université du Luxembourg• Alan Davis, Language Teaching Center, Ruhruniversität Bohum• Coordinator for the Russian Federation : Irina Iurievna Markovina,

Candidate in philological sciences; holding the chair of philological sciences, First MGMU at Setchenov

• Victoria Jura, Doctor in philological sciences, holding the chair of foreign languages at VolGMU

• Svetlana Pisklakova, Translator at the Department for international cooperation, OmGMA

• And lots of other colleagues and advisors!

Example of Activity Luxembourg 2010 workshop

Exchange with Marguerita Musochranowa

The history of medecine is linked to philosophy

Medical terminology tries to find the right words to better understand the patient and his/her suffering.

There is variation in time and in space in the way sickness is described and approached

When we teach and learn a foreign language for medical staff, like in our project, we not only get to know another culture and language, we also learn more about the foundations of our own tradition and discipline.

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3 Outcomes

Sharing with others

The central philosophy of our group

Contact with new cultures:

two opposite types of forces are at work hereattraction and confirmation of distance

A good construction of intercultural bridges needs both: centripetal and centrifugal forces

Romania: fortified churches as a protection against the Turkish invaders

At the same time: Turkish artwork to decorate the interior of the churches

Result: a garden with rich and diverse production