Need Analysis of English for Nursing Students and the Relevance to Learning Material

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10.2991/978-2-38476-166-1_39How to use a DOI?

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Need Analysis; Learning Materials; English for Nursing

Abstract

To provide learning material there are some considerations in selecting, adapting and evaluating the content which can be done by arranging need analysis. Through need analysis, it shows the preference and appropriate learning materials to support students in improving language skill based on their working ground. Learning materials are expected to be suitable with the target need especially occupational needs. Language learning resources will help students in understanding and using language skill when they get into job field. This study is purposely conducted to find out the learning material to be relevant used for nursing students. Whereas, the data source is obtained from the professional nurses who work in medical institution. The technique of collecting the data is done by handing the questionnaire and document analysis. The questionnaire is contained of English subskills need to be expanded to support students’ proficiency at work. The document analysis is be described by answering several questions adopted from Hutchinson and Waters. The study uses descriptive qualitative method. The findings describe the need of occupational needs in work field and its the relevance to learning materials used for nursing students. The result shows that language skills occasionally used are speaking and reading. Whereas, the learning material used in the classroom is not really sufficient and meet the occupational English in work field. The results are substantial for teacher and designers to review and redesign the materials to learn English related to work field. It is suggested that the learning materials provided by lecturers are supposed to be relevant to occupation field in order to meet target and students’ needs.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Vini Rafika Octavia
AU  - Ratmanida
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/12/30
TI  - Need Analysis of English for Nursing Students and the Relevance to Learning Material
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on English Language and Teaching (ICOELT 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 269
EP  - 275
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-166-1_39
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-166-1_39
ID  - Octavia2023
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