Tests of clinical competence, which allow decisions to be made about medical qualification
and fitness to practise, must be designed with respect to key issues including blueprinting …

Objective To determine whether the ethnicity of UK trained doctors and medical students is
related to their academic performance. Design Systematic review and meta-analysis. Data …

This chapter provides a sketch of the assumptions, values, frameworks and techniques that
currently characterise linguistic ethnography. In keeping with the dynamic that makes it a …

torical survey of language and intercultural communication studies with a critical assessment
of past and present theory, research, and practice, as well as an insight into future directions …

Aims: To assess prevalence of the insulin resistance syndrome (IRS: obesity, abnormal
glucose homoeostasis, dyslipidaemia, and hypertension) in obese UK children and …

Approach Theme‐oriented discourse analysis looks at how language constructs
professional practice. Recordings of naturally occurring interactions are transcribed and …

This chapter reports on a case study of one student's failed attempt to learn Chinese as a
foreign language during an intensive summer course at a major North American university …

This paper aims to illustrate what discourse analysis is and how it can contribute to our
understanding of family practice. Firstly, we describe what 'discourse analysis' is, mapping …

Background Clinical supervisors make frequent assessments of medical trainees'
competence so they can provide appropriate opportunities for trainees to experience clinical …

This chapter has described the intellectual foundation of sociocultural/cultural-historical
perspectives on human development and their relevance to applied linguistics research and …