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Li, Hua-Pao.

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Examining Taiwanese nursing students at the junior college level's communicative competence when interacting with English-speaking patients for medical purposes.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Examining Taiwanese nursing students at the junior college level's communicative competence when interacting with English-speaking patients for medical purposes./
Author:	Li, Hua-Pao.
Description:	205 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-06(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International76-06A(E).
Subject:	English as a second language. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3662385
ISBN:	9781321556889

Examining Taiwanese nursing students at the junior college level's communicative competence when interacting with English-speaking patients for medical purposes.
Li, Hua-Pao.

Examining Taiwanese nursing students at the junior college level's communicative competence when interacting with English-speaking patients for medical purposes. - 205 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-06(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--University of Massachusetts Lowell, 2014.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

English is the most prevalent foreign language in Taiwan. With Taiwan moving forward as an internationalized country, more and more foreigners have been attracted to visit, work, and reside in Taiwan during the past decade. Knowing that providing quality English services could help serve this English-speaking community, various colleges started offering English for Specific Purposes (ESP) conversation courses to teach their nursing students how to communicate orally with patients in English. However, more often than not, these courses were not developed on the basis of a needs analysis. A review of the literature has also indicated that most of the previous studies on analyzing Taiwanese nursing students' language needs were not specifically focusing on examining their needs of communicating orally with English-speaking patients.

ISBN: 9781321556889Subjects--Topical Terms:

516208
English as a second language.

Examining Taiwanese nursing students at the junior college level's communicative competence when interacting with English-speaking patients for medical purposes.
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520 $a English is the most prevalent foreign language in Taiwan. With Taiwan moving forward as an internationalized country, more and more foreigners have been attracted to visit, work, and reside in Taiwan during the past decade. Knowing that providing quality English services could help serve this English-speaking community, various colleges started offering English for Specific Purposes (ESP) conversation courses to teach their nursing students how to communicate orally with patients in English. However, more often than not, these courses were not developed on the basis of a needs analysis. A review of the literature has also indicated that most of the previous studies on analyzing Taiwanese nursing students' language needs were not specifically focusing on examining their needs of communicating orally with English-speaking patients.
520 $a Based on this fact, the purpose of this study was to examine Taiwanese nursing students at the junior college level's communicative competence when interacting with English-speaking patients for medical purposes. The study used a mixed methods research approach to collect both quantitative and qualitative data from 192 nursing students at two junior colleges and four nursing and English language professionals. The study explored the research questions: "To what extent do Taiwanese nursing students at the junior college level who have completed ESP conversation courses feel competent to communicate orally with English-speaking patients for medical purposes?" and "What communicative competences do Taiwanese nursing students at the junior college level need to possess in order to be able to communicate effectively with English-speaking patients for medical purposes?".
520 $a The quantitative aspect of the study asked the students to self-evaluate their ability to communicate orally with English-speaking patients using the adapted version of Communicative Competence Questionnaire (CCQ). The results showed that the students as a whole felt slightly competent to communicate orally with the patients. They were somewhat competent at using verbal and non-verbal strategies to produce and comprehend spoken English. However, their communicative competence was not mature enough for them to produce grammatically correct utterances when providing health care services to English-speaking patients. Additionally, communicative interaction and role-play activities were two types of classroom instruction that could help the students develop their grammatical competence and strategic competence respectively.
520 $a The qualitative aspect of the study used focus groups and in-depth interviews with two groups of six students each who had answered the questionnaire and two nurses and two EFL/ESP teachers respectively to understand their perceptions of the communicative competences that Taiwanese nursing students at the junior college level need to have. The major findings included grammatical competence, competence of producing utterances clearly, strategic competence, and competence of using appropriate language. The qualitative data also revealed that the nursing students were not quite competent at conversing with English-speaking patients when providing health care services to them, which supports the survey results in general.
520 $a As Taiwan government looks to improve its English services to better serve its English-speaking community, it is of value to understand the oral English communicative competence of our nursing students at the junior college level, who are considered the major source of the future nursing workforce. This study may serve as a stepping stone for further research.
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