English for Doctors: An ESP Approach to Needs Analysis and Course Design For Medical Students

Abstract

English is considered a language of communication as well as language of fashion and status in Pakistan. For last some decades, it is being taught in different institutions to meet specified academic and professional needs of learners. As far as medical profession is concerned, doctors need English language during their academic studies as well as in their professional settings. The study investigated the communicative needs of doctors at academic and professional level in survey based research. The data was collected, analyzed and interpreted quantitatively by administering questionnaire among medical students and doctors. The findings revealed that there is huge gap between the acquired competencies of doctors with their desired level of English proficiency skills. Majority of the respondents stressed upon the need to introduce English language courses and workshops for medical students and doctors respectively, so that they may fulfill their communicative needs in effective way.

Need Analysis for Designing Esp Course for Medical Students

“…Furthermore, the data also stated that the communication or interaction skill of a doctor is important because it will influence the way patient connect with them and trust them. This result also shared the same idea with two studies conducted by Kayaoğlu andAkbaş in 2016 andLodhi et al in 2018. Both studies explained the importance of interaction or communication skill for medical students during their study. Both studies emphasize on the importance of interaction to boost the students' skill for their future career as a medical worker or doctor.…”

“…Therefore, once ESP (English for Specific Purposes) concept was proposed by Hutchinson and Waters back in 1987 after the World War II, people tended to create or design a specific course for medical students called Medical English (ME). Medical English mainly focuses at the technical and contextual based (Lodhi, Shamim, Robab, Shahzad, & Ashraf, 2018). Also, ME is categorized as extremely different with general English that has been existed since the beginning of the spread of English because eventually ME is strongly related to medical workers' needs and is directly connected with their future skill.…”

SKDI-Based Needs Analysis for Designing English for Students of Medicine in Indonesia

“…A number of research studies have reported that English at Higher Education becomes one of determining factors of ones' success in both academic and career (Antony, 2018;Daffa-Allah, 2012;Kaur, 2007;Lodhi, Shamim, Robab, Shahzad, & Ashraf, 2018); Poorhadi, 2017;Skelton & Whetstone, 2012;Woodrow, 2018). These studies are aligned with the previous studies conducted by Sujana, Fitriana & Syahrial (2016) and Sujana, Hanafi, Wilian, Syahrial, & Fitriana (2019).…”

Az orvosi szaknyelv tanulásával és tanításával kapcsolatos percepciók és attitűdök: így látják a külföldi hallgatók

“…A kommunikációs készségek erősítése éppen ezért elengedhetetlen és kiemelt fontosságú. Módszertanilag számos eszköz fellelhető a szaknyelvi órákon, például a mondatfordítás vagy a szókincs gyakorlása különféle módokon, de legtöbbször a feladat-és problémaközpontúság jellemző rájuk (Lodhi et al, 2018), mivel a hallgatók aktív bevonása pozitív hatással lehet a motivációjukra, még a kevésbé érdekes feladatok esetében is (Ryan -Deci, 2000).…”