Voices of Nursing Students in English Material Development Oriented to Learners’ Characteristics

DOI

10.2991/iceri-18.2019.32How to use a DOI?

Keywords

needs analysis, ESP, material development, supplementary materials, English for nursing.

Abstract

This study aims at investigating the needs of nursing students of Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta University in learning English that was conducted as the beginning stage of developing supplementary English materials adjusted to the learners’ characteristics due to the high demand of professional nurses. This study is a descriptive quantitative research which used questionnaires as the instruments to gather data. The questionnaire was administered to 23 nursing students in order to reveal students’ needs of English learning. The results of the data analysis show that nursing students need English materials covering listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. Meanwhile, in regard to the career purposes, students need to shape their communicative skills adjusted to their field of study, such as recognizing the medical instructions (81%), producing spoken discourse appropriately in conversation with the patients related to patients’ health condition (56,76%), inferring the information from patients’ medical reports (70,27%), and producing acceptable medical reports (86,49%). In terms of learning needs, students preferred to work in pairs (37,8%) and chose discussion as the most preferred activity (83,7%). For the topic of the learning materials, the highest preferred topic is medical treatment and patient care (51%) followed by health problems, nurses’ duties, nutritious food, and nurses’ duties.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Refrilia Ulfah
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TI  - Voices of Nursing Students in English Material Development Oriented to Learners’ Characteristics
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