Effectiveness of EFL course in improving student nurses’ achievement

Abstract

Achievement informs of the effectiveness of the teaching methods used in the classroom. Besides, it tells whether learners have achieved the goals of education or not, instigating learners to identify their positive and negative areas and modify or stabilise answers later on (Nedzinskaitė et al., 2006:84). It helps in promoting self-government and self-regulation and self-learning. Spinah (2012) proposes that academic achievement denotes performance results of education either at school, college, or university, which can be embodied in the learner's marks/points/grade gained. Bedsides, as to the present study, it is seen that achievement can inform whether or not changes in any of the curriculum components should be made .It is evident in many studies carried out on student nurses that proficiency or success in using the English language is straightforwardly linked to students' academic achievement/ performance (e.g.