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ICIC launches new two-week intensive program for international STEM scholars

Non-native English speaking faculty in Science, Engineering and Math will be in Indianapolis September 17-28, 2012 for a two-week intensive program that will help them present and publish research findings in English. Learn more. Download brochure and program overview.

International postdoctoral researchers enhance presentation skills at ICIC workshop  

A recent ICIC workshop aimed at helping international researchers improve their oral presentation skills was well-attended. Learn more.  

  

Intercultural communication workshops for area healthcare systems are now available

ICIC is now offering workshops designed to help healthcare professionals improve communication with international patients and colleagues. CME accreditation available. Learn more. Download workshop flyer

  

Japanese college students learn more than English at ICIC

Japanese college students practiced their English and learned first-hand about leadership and American culture in ICIC’s summer program. Full story

    

ICIC now part of training program for new doctors

ICIC’s programs for international physicians have proven so effective that some new medical residents now incorporate two days of required language assessment and training with ICIC as part of their orientation program.  Full story  

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ICIC will host the 7th Conference on Intercultural Rhetoric and Discourse at IUPUI on August 9-11, 2012.

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conference photoICIC Director Ulla Connor (left, with Jun Liu, Diana Pascoe-Chavez and Kara McBride) was a plenary speaker at the Mid-America Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Conference on October 21-22 at Saint Louis University. More than 300 people from eight states and nine countries attended the event.  Topics for the conference included intercultural communication and rhetoric as well as the relationship between language learning and global citizenship.

ICIC Assistant Director Kathryn Lauten organized a panel discussion on medical discourse for the Pragmatics Festival at Indiana University in Bloomington on April 19-21, 2012.  Lauren Harvey and Marta Anton were part of the panel, along with other international researchers and scholars. More information on their panel presentation is available at: http://www.indiana.edu/~pragfest/colloquia/langHealthcare.php. 
 

Culture matters, according to a new book by ICIC Director Ulla Connor. Her latest book, Intercultural Rhetoric in the Writing Classroom, helps trace the evolution in the instruction of writing to second language learners.  Full story link

ICIC’s Lauren Harvey presented a session on Intercultural Patient and Healthcare Provider Communication at the Intercultural Management Institute (IMI) 13th Annual Conference on Intercultural Relations at American University on March 15-16, 2011 in Washington, D.C. More information is available at http://www.american.edu/sis/imi/conference/sessions.cfm.

Harvey also gave a presentation entitled Women’s Leadership Development: Critical Pedagogy in an English Intensive Program at the INTESOL 2011 Conference at IUPUI on November 19. Her talk described ICIC’s annual summer English program for Tsuda College students.  

ICIC presented at the International Conference on Communication in Healthcare Conference (ICCH) in Chicago October 16-19, 2011. Conference organizers note this was the largest gathering of researchers, educators and administrators from around the world focusing on improving communication in healthcare.