ENGLISH FOR ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONALS MINISTRY OF HEALTH, MALAYSIA YEAR 1 LANGUAGE SKILLS 1.

0 Listening and Speaking 1.1 Pronunciation Enunciation Diction Projection Articulation 1.2 Presentation skills Explaining procedures while performing task Giving talks Voice projection 1.3 Communication skills Questioning critically Responding to patients Communicating with colleagues Eliciting information from patients Telephoning skills Relaying information 1.4 Listening Comprehension LANGUAGE STUDY Imperatives Sentence connectors Simple present tense Questions types Adjectives Adverbs Register Style Audience Occasion Proxemics SEMESTER 1 ACTIVITIES CONTEXTS The contexts of activities are drawn from various disciplines (Basic Sciences, Nursing Sciences, Behavioural Sciences or Health Sciences), at the workplace and social function. For example: Bed-sponge Dressing wounds Dispensing medication Teaching exercises for physiotherapy Case presentation Giving talks Eliciting accurate patients history Communicating with: Superiors Subordinates Intra/inter departmental staff Patients/clients Maintenance staff Sales representatives

Role play Simulation Commentaries Note-taking Oral presentation Explaining processes and procedures Eliciting information Counseling Giving instructions and advice Spontaneous response

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Discerning main ideas Understanding sequence Inferring Predicting Carrying out instructions Reading The contexts of activities are drawn from various disciplines (Basic Sciences, Nursing Sciences, Behavioural Sciences or Health Sciences), at the workplace and social function. For example: Medical vocabulary, terminologies and expressions (APPENDIX C) Substituting medical terminologies with lay terms Case studies Bed Head Ticket Prescription Journals

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Reading Comprehension Reading for main ideas Reading for supporting ideas Inferencing Skimming Scanning Guessing from contextual clues

Nouns Singular and Plural Classes of nouns Verbs Verbs to-be and main

SQ3R Skimming Scanning Reading aloud Silent reading Paragraph reading

verbs Regular and irregular verbs Anaphora and cataphora Expanding vocabulary Improving spelling: word patterns, families, basic rules Root words, suffixes, prefixes Syllabification Derivations Capitalisation

Word / vocabulary games

2.2 Dictionary Skills Extending vocabulary Spelling Basic phonetic script

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