English Course for Students of Dentistry
Veronika Dvořáčková, Jana Klapilová, Marie Lahodová Vališová
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Course Creation – Your Experience
•When were you last involved in creating from scratch or substantially modifying
an English for Specific Purposes (ESP) or Language for Specific Purposes (LSP) course?
•What specific approaches did you use during the course development or modification process?
•Can you share any obstacles you faced and how you dealt with them?
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Outline
•Background
•Syllabus
•Activity types
•Hands-on tasks
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Background
•Ongoing course differentiation process
•English for Medics, Dentists and Embryologists I, II
•English for Non-Medical Healthcare Professions I, II
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•New courses
•English for Laboratory Technicians (T. Kibalnikova, K. Lexová)
•English for Dentistry (V. Dvořáčková, J. Klapilová, M. Lahodová Vališová)
•spring semester, vocabulary/terminology focused, skills
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•Planned
•English for Embryologists
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Syllabus
•Unit 1: Presentation and Oral Exam
•Unit 2: Chairside Manner and Medical History Taking
•Unit 3: Oral Cavity
•Unit 4: Extraoral and Intraoral Examination
•Unit 5: Dental Caries
•Unit 6: Dental Prophylaxis
•Unit 7: Restorative Dentistry
•Unit 8: Oral Cancer
•Unit 9: Orthodontics
•Unit 10: Dental Trauma and Maxillofacial Surgery
•Unit 11: Oral Health and Systemic Diseases
•Unit 12: Ethics in Dentistry
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Activity Types
•item matching
•collocation formation
•wordformation
•gapfills
•item ordering
•video tasks
• … usually combinations of all above
•role plays
•patient report completion
•case discussion task
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Item Matching
•Pictures
•Definitions
Unit 5 Dental Caries
Unit 3 Oral Cavity
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TASK Matching

Gapfills
Word Formation
Unit 9 Orthodontics
Unit 4 Extraoral and Intraoral Examination
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Collocation Formation
Unit 11 Oral Health and Systemic Diseases
Unit 6 Dental Prophylaxis
Video (or here)
TASK

Collocation Formation – Key
•heart disease: oral bacteria, inflamed gums, infective endocarditis, susceptible individual,
colonize the lining of the heart
•diabetes: blood sugar control, oral thrush, dry mouth
•pneumonia: compromised patients, bacterial plaque, oral secretions, hospital-acquired pneumonia
•nutrition: chewing food, broken teeth, loose teeth, denture loss
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Sorting Out
Ordering
Unit 3 Oral Cavity
Unit 5 Dental Caries

Video Tasks
Unit 4 Extraoral and Intraoral Examination
Unit 7 Restorative Dentistry
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Role Plays
•Unit 2 Medical history taking
•Unit 6 Dental check-up
•Unit 7 Root canal treatment (OET)
•Unit 9 Orthodontic consultation
•Unit 10 Chipped molar treatment
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Patient Report Completion
Unit 11 Oral Health and Systemic Diseases
Sample report
Instructions and patient profiles
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Case Discussion
•Teacher Notes
•The texts, comprehension questions and suggested answers for teachers are available as a separate
document.
•Step 1  (6 min)
•small groups, all participants reading the same case report
•glossary of technical terms
•three discussion (comprehension) questions
•Step 2 (6 min)
•groups reshuffled, all three case reports are represented
•a bank of 14 questions, students and answer those related to their text, sharing more background
with their peers
Unit 8 Oral Cancer
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TASK

Resources
•Multiple…
•Quoted at the back of each unit.

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