LINGUIST List 33.1350
Fri Apr 15 2022
FYI: Technology for Medical Language Assessment: Transdisciplinary Perspectives
Editor for this issue: Everett Green <everettlinguistlist.org>
Date: 06-Apr-2022
From: Saina Kiani <saina.kianiasiabar
ucalgary.ca>
Subject: Technology for Medical Language Assessment: Transdisciplinary Perspectives
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Series: Trends in Applied Linguistics [TAL]
Volume editors: Robert C. Johnson, M. Gregory Tweedie, & Saina Kiani
Aim of the book. The purpose of this edited volume is to present current research that lies at the intersection of healthcare communication, global migration, and the rapidly expanding technologies used for language testing. The global COVID-19 pandemic accelerated at a dizzying pace tectonic shifts already well under way: English - for better or for worse - as the language of international healthcare collaboration; the trans-global flow of healthcare professionals across international borders; the scramble to remote and online delivery of healthcare education and skills assessment; and the accelerated application of artificial intelligence technologies such as neural networks and deep learning to assessing language proficiency in general, and medical language in particular. The particular significance of this book lies in its interdisciplinary nature, in its current relevance, and in its applicability to a wide audience of readers, given that effective communication - and the assessment of it - lies at the very core of quality healthcare delivery. The global migration of healthcare professionals, the role of English as a medical lingua franca, and the rapidly increasing use of advanced, often "black box" technologies to assess language skills, we believe make this a very timely volume.
Potential chapter topics. Contributors to Technology for medical language assessment will be invited to take a transdisciplinary. reflective and critical stance on the intersection of topics such as the following.
- Healthcare communication where English is a medical lingua franca: opportunities and challenges
- Critical perspectives on remote, online assessment of healthcare language and skills: critical perspective and practical considerations
- Ethical considerations in international recruitment of healthcare professionals
- Applications, promises and perils of machine learning for healthcare language testing
- Academic integrity in high stakes automated scoring in language testing for healthcare
- Remote proctoring technologies, digital privacy and the honor system in healthcare language assessment
- The "black box": equity in an age of advanced statistical modelling for medical language testing
- Mergers and acquisitions: standards of English in remote testing
- Algorithmic bias and the digitizing of linguistic prejudice: applications to language assessment for healthcare
Focus of chapter proposals. Contributors to this edited volume will be invited to reflect on issues that lie at the intersection of healthcare communication and technological applications for the assessment of medical language proficiency. While we recognize and affirm the diversity of expertise and perspectives given the interdisciplinary nature of the edited volume, contributors will be asked to address how their particular chapter addresses all three central foci of the book: healthcare communication, assessment and technology.
We welcome contributions using qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods research approaches, and from authors with diverse expertise including the various healthcare disciplines; computer and data science; computational linguistics; critical linguistics; language testing; and others.
Submitting a chapter proposal. Interested authors are invited to send a 500-word chapter proposal, explaining how their proposed chapter addresses all three central topics of the book (healthcare communication, language assessment and technology) by April 30, 2022, to the book editors.
Robert C. Johnson: johnsor
ucalgary.ca
M. Gregory Tweedie: gregory.tweedie
ucalgary.ca
Saina Kiani: saina.kianiasiabar
ucalgary.ca
Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
Subject Language(s):
English (eng)
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