Affiliation:
1. Faculty of Education , York University , Toronto , Ontario M5P1A7 , Canada
Abstract
Abstract
The Transforming Faces project is a partnership of speech-language therapy (SLT) educators and practitioners that is co-creating a computer-based series of lecture modules for use in Low Middle Income Countries (LMICs). The initial series of lectures is in English, for use by English speaking instructors and students whose first language is not English. Making the technically challenging and content-specific language of the lectures more accessible and comprehensible to students was the focus of this study. A review of literature from three areas of language learning led to recommendations for consideration in the development of the computer-based lectures modules, and the subsequent piloting of the modules in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Following the three-week pilot project, analysis of feedback from the instructor and the students resulted in a number of recommendations for the continued development and implementation of the dysphagia lectures, as well as potential future SLT courses in other global contexts.
Subject
Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics