Return-Path: <nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id h8MERPV27149; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 10:27:25 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 10:27:25 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3F6F029C.54039F8E@tenet.edu> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: james phillips <jphilip@tenet.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-HEALTH:4135] 5C/health/literacy X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; I) Status: O Content-Length: 1677 Lines: 41 The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages has its ‘National Standards for Foreign Language Education’ online at http://www.actfl.org/index.cfm?weburl=/public/articles/details.cfm?id=33. The standards consists of the 5C’s. These are communication, cultures, communities, comparisons, and connections. Who needs these 5C’s? Language students who are learning a foreign language as a skill to use in a future occupation need to know and learn to use these 5C’s. Many of these students are occupational Spanish students who will be specializing in medical Spanish. And, they are they ones who will become the interpreters and translators of health information. And, they might also become the future medical librarians who are developing health information for the Spanish speaking population in their communities. And, these students might also be developing these 5C language skills for other languages. An example of foreign language students using the 5C’s and medical Spanish is at the department of Spanish of the University of Texas. Last year students in Dr Orlando Kelm worked in clinics and in the class they learned how to write the lessons and exercises for textbooks pertaining to Spanish for health care workers. These medical Spanish students have Dr Kelms home page as a reference. The URL is http://www.lamc.utexas.edu/~orkelm/nurse/nursespanish.html. James Phillips, MLS Librarian South Texas Community College Dr. Ramiro R. Casso Nursing and Allied Health Center 1101 East Vermont McAllen, Texas 78501 956-683-3121 956-683-3190 (fax) www.stcc.cc.tx.us www.stcc.cc.tx.us/nah phillips@stcc.cc.tx.us jphilip@tenet.edu se habla español
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