Medical English anxiety patterns among medical students in Sichuan, China

Deng, Jiaqi; Zhou, Kaiji; Al-Shaibani, Ghayth K. Shaker

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.895117

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“…Deng and Zhou explored medical students’ medical English anxiety in Sichuan, China. They found that 85.2% of the students surveyed suffered moderate above medical English anxiety [ 22 ]. In the questionnaire, 88.89% of the fifth-year pediatric students believed that limited English was one of the most important barriers for scientific research.…”

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Perception, practice, and barriers toward research among pediatric undergraduates: a cross-sectional questionnaire-based survey

Zhan,

Zhang

2024

BMC Med Educ

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Background Scientific research activities are crucial for the development of clinician-scientists. However, few people pay attention to the current situation of medical research in pediatric medical students in China. This study aims to assess the perceptions, practices and barriers toward medical research of pediatric undergraduates. Methods This cross-sectional study was conducted among third-year, fourth-year and fifth-year pediatric students from Zhejiang University School of Medicine in China via an anonymous online questionnaire. The questionnaires were also received from fifth-year students majoring in other medicine programs [clinical medicine (“5 + 3”) and clinical medicine (5-year)]. Results The response rate of pediatric undergraduates was 88.3% (68/77). The total sample of students enrolled in the study was 124, including 36 students majoring in clinical medicine (“5 + 3”) and 20 students majoring in clinical medicine (5-year). Most students from pediatrics (“5 + 3”) recognized that research was important. Practices in scientific research activities are not satisfactory. A total of 51.5%, 35.3% and 36.8% of the pediatric students participated in research training, research projects and scientific article writing, respectively. Only 4.4% of the pediatric students contributed to publishing a scientific article, and 14.7% had attended medical congresses. None of them had given a presentation at a congress. When compared with fifth-year students in the other medicine program, the frequency of practices toward research projects and training was lower in the pediatric fifth-year students. Lack of time, lack of guidance and lack of training were perceived as the main barriers to scientific work. Limited English was another obvious barrier for pediatric undergraduates. Pediatric undergraduates preferred to participate in clinical research (80.9%) rather than basic research. Conclusions Although pediatric undergraduates recognized the importance of medical research, interest and practices in research still require improvement. Lack of time, lack of guidance, lack of training and limited English were the common barriers to scientific work. Therefore, research training and English improvement were recommended for pediatric undergraduates.

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Perception, practice, and barriers toward research among pediatric undergraduates: a cross-sectional questionnaire-based survey

Zhan,

Zhang

2024

BMC Med Educ

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“…Wang (2015) put forward five strategies to alleviate rural high students' English learning anxiety through qualitative analysis. Deng et al (2022) examined students' anxiety in medical English vocabulary, listening and speaking, communication, literature reading, and academic paper writing, and found the anxiety of rural medical students in each dimension was higher than that of urban medical students.…”

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English learning anxiety of Chinese rural junior high school students under the online class mode

Huang

2023

Front. Psychol.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has brought tremendous changes to the field of education, transferring traditional offline teaching to online teaching on a large scale globally. Junior high school students, as a special group, may experience foreign language learning anxiety different from anxiety experienced by college students in the process of online English learning. This research aims at investigating the level of, sources and strategies for English learning anxiety of Chinese rural junior high school students under online class mode. A total of 120 students from Dongshan Junior High School in Haikou participated in this study and asked to fill in the questionnaires, and 12 of them were randomly chosen to be interviewed. IBM SPSS Statistics 26 was used to analyze the data. This research found that Chinese rural junior high school students generally had a moderate level of English learning anxiety, and there is statistically no significant relation between the gender difference and anxiety in online foreign language classes. It was also found that factors influencing English learning anxiety of Chinese rural junior high school students included the students themselves, their home environments, the teacher and the school, and the social environment. Lastly, the research found five strategies to relieve foreign language learning anxiety, including recognizing the existence of anxiety correctly, communicating the anxiety honestly with others, improving the psychological quality, being positive about life’ s setbacks, and setting up some realistic goals in English learning.

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“…The need for high levels of English proficiency is particularly pronounced among medical students in the Chinese context. Previous studies have indicated that medical students must possess adequate English proficiency to navigate scientific journals, to stay updated with global medical advancements, and to publish their own empirical work in prestigious journals indexed by the Science Citation Index (SCI) (Li & Heron, 2021;Deng et al, 2022). Moreover, English proficiency has gained significant weight in the selection process for graduate school admissions in China, evident through the inclusion of an English testing segment in graduate school application procedures, such as the Postgraduate Admission Test and graduate school interviews.…”

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Motivation of Chinese Medical Students in Learning English as a Second Language: A Quantitative Study

Wang¹

2023

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Within the context of internationalization, Chinese students are now expected to demonstrate high levels of English proficiency in higher education. With increasing emphasis on English proficiency, particularly in medical programs offered by Chinese institutions of higher learning, it is crucial to identify students' motivations to learn English. However, the motivation of Chinese medical students to learn English as a second language has largely gone unexplored. This research study fills a gap in existing literature by utilizing a quantitative method to examine the motivation of 145 students from nine medicine-related majors and different academic years. A structured questionnaire, written in Chinese, was utilized to collect data on students' demographic information, self-perceived English proficiency level, motivations for learning English, and preference for teaching methods. Prior to questionnaire distribution, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 10 medical students to inform the questionnaire's development. Quantitative data analysis involved calculating mean values and standard deviations for Likert scale items. Results of this study reveal a variety of motivational factors driving medical students' English language learning, with achieving sufficient scores on standardized tests emerging as the primary factor. Furthermore, the study identifies listening comprehension as the most challenging area of English language acquisition based on survey responses. While highlighting the limitations of this study, the findings underscore the need for Chinese institutions of higher learning to better support the language needs of medical students. The study concludes by proposing some recommendations to enhance language instruction in Chinese English classrooms.

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Medical English anxiety patterns among medical students in Sichuan, China

Cited by 7 publications

References 42 publications

Perception, practice, and barriers toward research among pediatric undergraduates: a cross-sectional questionnaire-based survey

Perception, practice, and barriers toward research among pediatric undergraduates: a cross-sectional questionnaire-based survey

English learning anxiety of Chinese rural junior high school students under the online class mode

Motivation of Chinese Medical Students in Learning English as a Second Language: A Quantitative Study

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