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A database of selected, reviewed, tested, assessed and validated e-learning based language teaching sources addressed to Higher education students for the learning of 18 different European languages.

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BIOMAP

Date of Publication

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Target Group

Lecturers
Students

Domain Area

Medicine & Nursing

Learning Scenario

Autonomous learning
Classroom Context

Target Language

Romanian

Language of Instruction

Any language

CEFR level

B1
B2
C1
C2

Type of Material

Animation
Activity/task
Reference resources (online Dictionaries/ grammar guides/phrasebooks)
Simulation

Linguistic Features

Vocabulary

Skills

Critical Thinking
Reading
Mediation

Description

Biomap is a platform that allows Romanian and international students to discover and understand the human body in its dynamics. Thanks to 3D images from anatomy, physiology and pathology, students can learn medicine and implicitly medical language in an attractive way. The interactive technology used by this platform greatly shortens the duration of acquiring the learning medical terminology.

Case study

The resource as such can be used for the teaching of specialized vocabulary, but is not associated with any elements of grammar/structure, which limits the possible uses of this resource. It can only be used by students with already well developed specialized vocabulary and at least basic knowledge of grammar, so the level of B1 indicated in the file may be too optimistic. It would require rather intensive preparatory activities for the lecturer and the students cannot use it independently. An upside is the digital format, which allows various levels of interaction of the student with the material, as well as the presence of the visuals, which create better associations between the concepts and the specialized vocabulary and support retention of the Romanian form. Some form of audio support would increase the value of the resource.

Guidelines

Reading comprehension, specialized vocabulary, level B1
1. The trainer introduces the title – The Heart – and elicits a basic definition of this organ in the human body and other terms related to the topic such as the aortic artery, ventricle, systole, diastole, etc.
2. Based on elicited vocabulary, the trainer introduces the terms related to the anatomy of the heart;
3. The trainer offers students a blank map of the anatomy of the heart, on which they try to locate each constituent then they check their results against the interactive map, standard, extracted from the platform used.
4. Presentation of paragraphs showing the set of terms related to inimă (heart), as well as various collocations /idiomatic expressions that contain the term inimă (heart).
The results obtained
- improving acquisition of specialized vocabulary in authentic contexts
The risks to be taken into account when using the resource
- users need certain instructions to use the interface at an acceptable speed

Review

Category
Rate
Comprehensive approach
Capacity to match the needs of lecturers and students

5

Added value
The provided tangible improvements

5

Motivation enhancement
The capacity to motivate students to improve their language skills

5

Innovation
Effectiveness in introducing innovative, creative and previously unknown approaches to LSP learning

5

Transferability
Measurement of the transferable potential and possibility to be a source of further capitalisation/application for other language projects in different countries

5

Skills assessment and validation
Availability of appropriate tools for lecturers to monitor students’ progress and for students to assess own progress and to reflect on learning

3

Adaptability
Flexibility of the contents and possibilities for the LSP lecturers to adapt the contents to their and to students’ need

1

Usability
Assess the technical usability from the point of view of the lecturer and the student

5

Accessibility
Assess the accessibility from the point of view of the lecturer and the student

5

Comments:
The platform provides an interactive source of medical language discovery. It can be used either as a main source or as a complementary source in teaching medical language. The corpus of images and explanations can be used by future physicians to fixate their knowledge of anatomy, physiology and pathology, but also by the teacher to teach medical language. Technically, it is an easy to use platform, free in the demo version, with payment, in the complex version. Teachers can extract corpora from here to create different exercises, to check specialized vocabulary.
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