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LL-Medics on the Move
The LL-MoM project builds further on the Medics-on-the-Move concept, but it aims to broaden the original target audience. It takes the MoM project a step further by including absolute beginners, introducing materials for learners who can be situated at the A1 language level of the European Framework of Reference for Languages. In other words, the LL-MoM project will offer language materials for language discordant medical professionals without any knowledge of the target language. In addition, LL-MoM will investigate possibilities for blended learning, and will explore other target audiences such as medical skills labs and cultural mediators and translators.LL-Medics on the Move aims to address the needs of language discordant medical professionals, and is therefore not developed as a traditional contact-teaching programme. It is developed in six target languages (English, Danish, Dutch, German, Italian and Swedish) and offers five interface languages (Arabic, Polish, Romanian, Russian, and Turkish). The programme provides material for autonomous learning, thereby allowing the medical professional to improve his language competence at any place and at any moment. Medics on the Move further anticipates the hectic lifestyle of the medical professional by making the language tool accessible from web-enabled mobile devices, such as smartphones, IPhones and Blackberrys. Medics-on-the-Move therefore can be regarded as an on-the-job, just-in-time learning tool that ties in with the demands of the medical profession by allowing for autonomous learning. Language learners follow a language for specific purposes course as a preparation or assistance tool for a successful integration on the workfloor. Therefore, it is important that the programme provides them with knowledge to meet the linguistic and communicative demands of their (future) professional context. The LL-MoM program aims to fulfil these objectives while realizing that medical professionals are under a great time pressure. Therefore, the language programme needs to be as efficient as possible. The developers thus have chosen to offer contextualized material to the A1 learners.