Towards a communication-focused ESP course for nursing students in building partnership with patients: A needs analysis

IF 3.2 1区文学 Q1 LINGUISTICS

English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI:10.1016/j.esp.2022.11.006

Qing Huang , Qianwen Joyce Yu

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Abstract

With the growing popularity of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) nursing courses worldwide, considerable work has gone to identifying the English language learning needs of nurses and nursing students, with their perceptions well documented. However, needs analyses grounded in students' communicative behaviors in performing nursing tasks are still in their fledging stage. This study offers an ethnographic discourse analytical account of role-play conversations collected from 100 college nursing students in China. It explores nursing students' communicative practices by identifying the communication patterns that students adopt in a simulated scenario of giving a patient an injection. Findings show students' awareness of patients’ concern and preferences, and their informational skills such as giving instructions, negotiating treatment options, and explaining medical procedures. Yet students demonstrate a great reliance on prescribed phraseology, struggling to adjust their nursing plan based on differing patient needs. This study sheds light on the specificity of ESP nursing courses and the challenges complicated by the changing nature of the global healthcare landscape, where patient-centered care is prioritized. It also provides implications for ESP curriculum development and highlights the importance of learner-centered tailor-made language instruction.

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面向护生的以沟通为中心的ESP课程:需求分析

随着特殊用途英语（ESP）护理课程在全球范围内越来越受欢迎，护士和护理专业学生的英语学习需求已经得到了大量的确定，他们的看法也得到了很好的记录。然而，基于学生在执行护理任务时的交流行为的需求分析仍处于起步阶段。本研究对100名中国护理专业大学生的角色扮演对话进行了民族志语篇分析。它通过识别学生在给病人注射的模拟场景中采用的沟通模式来探索护理学生的沟通实践。研究结果显示，学生们意识到患者的担忧和偏好，以及他们的信息技能，如给出指示、协商治疗方案和解释医疗程序。然而，学生们表现出对处方用语的极大依赖，难以根据不同的患者需求调整他们的护理计划。这项研究揭示了ESP护理课程的特殊性，以及全球医疗格局不断变化所带来的挑战，在全球医疗格局中，以患者为中心的护理是优先考虑的。它还为ESP课程开发提供了启示，并强调了以学习者为中心的量身定制的语言教学的重要性。

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English for Specific Purposes LINGUISTICS-

CiteScore

5.70

自引率

8.00%

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审稿时长

62 days

期刊介绍： English For Specific Purposes is an international peer-reviewed journal that welcomes submissions from across the world. Authors are encouraged to submit articles and research/discussion notes on topics relevant to the teaching and learning of discourse for specific communities: academic, occupational, or otherwise specialized. Topics such as the following may be treated from the perspective of English for specific purposes: second language acquisition in specialized contexts, needs assessment, curriculum development and evaluation, materials preparation, discourse analysis, descriptions of specialized varieties of English.