A survey of medical students’ English language need in Indonesia higher education  

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Budianto, Langgeng ; Zuroidah, Ifta

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: KOLITA 17: Konferensi Linguistik Tahunan Atma Jaya Ketujuh Belas Tingkat Internasional, page 281-285.
Topik: Identification; survey; ESP courses; medical students
Fulltext: 281-285.Langgeng Budianto, Ifta Zuroidah.pdf (559.25KB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 406 KLA 17 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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The language teaching professions had to develop courses to fulfill those learners’ needs. The English courses offered in the department of medicine at the State Islamic University, Malang (SIUM) Indonesia was not based on the need of the students. This study was an attempt to investigate the most fundamental need of the 3rd semester medical students in learning English for specific purposes (ESP) course. In order to meet the students’ views toward what they need to learn, a need analysis questionnaire to 46 students in ESP classes was conducted. The current medical ESP teaching cannot fully reflect and effectively meet the learning needs of students, so there is the need to strengthen students’ English practical application ability and to strengthen the overall intercultural quality of students in ESP teaching. The results demonstrated that the students considered all four of the language skills were necessary for their academic studies and their target career. They needed English for career development and international relationship. Speaking and reading are the skills-needed to strengthen their future career. In line with the finding toward the important language skills needed, the course developed materials for the departments was stressed accordingly on communicative context of tasks that the students needed to perform on the job effectively.

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