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L'utilisation de séries télévisées pour l'enseignement/apprentissage de la communication pour la consultation médicale

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The objective of this research in English for Specific Purposes is to measure the impact of the use of television series on the teaching/learning of communication for medical consultation. It is largely rooted in the field of teaching and learning as existing theories and methodologies are studied with the aim of creating an innovative programme to teach medical students how to communicate during a consultation. This research is innovative as it compares the effectiveness of three types of documents: pedagogical documents, a medical television series and a mix of medical and non-medical television series. The first part of this thesis, which introduces medical English as a sub-genre of English for Specific Purposes, offers a reflection on the language of medical consultation, as well as its cultural aspect, by deconstructing its dynamics. The second part constitutes the methodological framework, in which the different construction phases of the new programme are introduced, and the scientific protocols are outlined. The third part is dedicated to the analyses and discussion of the data obtained during the research, in order to shed light on how the television series tool influences the students' ability to communicate with a foreign patient during a medical consultation. The results show that even if the use of television series is statistically less effective than educational documents in memorizing, using and perpetuating communicational knowledge, their use leads to changes in the representation of the professional posture on the cognitive level.