Developing genre-specific teaching materials for the anamnèse in French for health sciences

Mercado, Ariel Sebastián (author)

The anamnèse, or case history, is a foundational written genre in healthcare, produced routinely by professionals during clinical encounters. Despite its importance, there is a notable lack of pedagogical resources tailored to support non-French-speaking students in mastering this genre within French for Specific Purposes (FSP) contexts. This gap presents a challenge for instructors, who often must create custom materials in collaboration with healthcare practitioners. Building on a previous needs-based study of course content, this teaching report documents the development of targeted instructional materials for the anamnèse genre within a French for Health Sciences course at an English-language university in Montreal, Canada. The development process began with a review of relevant literature and textbooks in both French and English for the health sciences. Following this, and after meeting with healthcare faculty members, in the course of which students’ writing challenges during medical placements were idenified, the teaching materials were created. The findings led to the formulation of a proposed structure for the anamnèse, grounded in both practitioner input and existing literature on case histories in English and French. Sample teaching activities are presented to demonstrate how the materials address learners’ specific needs. This report contributes to the advancement of genre-based pedagogy in FSP and emphasizes the value of interdisciplinary collaboration in developing effective, context-sensitive teaching tools.

• Language: English
• Keywords: French for medicine, French for healthcare, anamnèse, case history
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.04 - Professional Article
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2025
• Number of pages: Str. 42-58
• Numbering: Vol. 20, no. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-179189
• ISSN on article: 1854-2042
• DOI: 10.4312/SM.20.2.42-58
• COBISS.SI-ID: 271421955
• Publication date in RUL: 05.03.2026

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Scripta manent : revija Slovenskega društva učiteljev tujega strokovnega jezika = journal of the Slovene Association of LSP Teachers
• Publisher: Založba Univerze v Ljubljani = University of Ljubljana Press, Slovensko društvo učiteljev tujega strokovnega jezika = The Slovene Association of LSP Teachers
• ISSN: 1854-2042
• COBISS.SI-ID: 219704576

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• License: CC BY-SA 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Description: This Creative Commons license is very similar to the regular Attribution license, but requires the release of all derivative works under this same license.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian

Abstract

Anamneza je zapis podatkov o bolnikovem zdravstvenem stanju pred boleznijo in bistveni del diagnostičnega procesa. Predstavlja temeljni rutinski pisni žanr, ki ga zdravstvena stroka pripravi ob kliničnem pregledu. Čeprav gre za zelo pomemben dokument, pa se pri francoščini kot jeziku stroke (FJS) soočajo z mankom tovrstnih učnih gradiv prilagojenih študentom, ki jim francoščina ni prvi tuji jezik. Učitelji so tako postavljeni pred izziv, saj morajo ustrezno učno gradivo razvijati v sodelovanju z zdravstvenimi delavci. V tem članku smo na podlagi analize o potrebah učnega načrta opisali razvoj ciljnih učnih gradiv za pisanje anamneze pri predmetu Francoščina za zdravstvene vede na Univerzi McGill v Montréalu. V prispevku smo najprej predstavili relevantno literaturo in učbenike za zdravstvene vede v francoščini in angleščini. Na podlagi te literature smo po posvetu s člani in članicami fakultete za zdravstvene vede osvetlili težave študentov in študentk pri pisanju anamnez med klinično prakso ter nato razvili učna gradiva. Oblikovali smo napotke za oblikovanje anamneze, ki temeljijo na strokovnih smernicah ter na obstoječi literaturi v angleščini in francoščini. V zaključku smo opisali nekaj aktivnosti, ki osvetljujejo prilagojenost tega gradiva študijskim potrebam. S strokovnim člankom želimo prispevati k nadaljnjemu razvoju žanrskega pristopa pri poučevanju FSJ in poudariti pomen interdisciplinarnega sodelovanja pri razvoju učnih gradiv.

• Keywords: francoščina kot jezik stroke, francoščina kot tuji jezik v zdravstvu, anamneza, zgodovina zdravstvenega stanja