A Corpus-Based Evaluation on Two Different English for Nursing Purposes (ENP) Course Books

Mohamad, Alif Fairus Nor ; Puteh, Sharifah Nor

In: Advances in Language and Literary Studies, Jg. 8 (2017-04-01), Heft 2, S. 196-201

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It is difficult for most of the second language learners in Malaysia to function proficiently in English language due to limited vocabulary knowledge. It has also been challenging for TESL graduates to fit in as ENP teachers due to the lack of specialized vocabulary knowledge in nursing field. Thus, a course books has always been a highly dependable aid in facilitating the teaching and learning in an ENP classroom. The objective of this research is to identify the possible pedagogical aspects of two ENP commercial course books (Oxford English for Careers Nursing 1" (OEFCN1) written by Tony Grice and "Nursing Your English Second Edition" (NYE) by Siti Salina Salim and Mazura Mastura Muhammad) in socializing learners into their discourse communities. The present research looks at the extent of vocabulary coverage in comparison with General Service List (GSL), Academic Word List (AWL), Nursing Education Word List (NEWL) and the 2,000 most frequent nursing words. These course books were photocopied, scanned and converted into computer text files before they were analyzed using WordSmith 4.0 as it is able to provide elemental knowledge on the vocabulary coverage in both course books. The results indicated that both books showed significant result in terms of their coverage based on the three word lists. On the other hand, it is proven that the 2000 most frequent nursing words wordlist is not able to cover as much tokens as compared to GSL, AWL and NEWL combined.

Titel:	A Corpus-Based Evaluation on Two Different English for Nursing Purposes (ENP) Course Books
Autor/in / Beteiligte Person:	Mohamad, Alif Fairus Nor ; Puteh, Sharifah Nor
Link:	http://journals.aiac.org.au/index.php/alls/index
Zeitschrift:	Advances in Language and Literary Studies, Jg. 8 (2017-04-01), Heft 2, S. 196-201
Veröffentlichung:	2017
Medientyp:	academicJournal
ISSN:	2203-4714 (electronic)
Schlagwort:	Descriptors: Nursing Education English for Special Purposes Word Lists Second Language Learning Second Language Instruction Word Frequency Computer Software Vocabulary Development Foreign Countries Textbooks Content Analysis Comparative Analysis Statistical Analysis Computational Linguistics Nurses Higher Education Geographic Terms: Malaysia
Sonstiges:	Nachgewiesen in: ERIC Sprachen: English Language: English Peer Reviewed: Y Page Count: 6 Document Type: Journal Articles ; Reports - Research Education Level: Higher Education ; Postsecondary Education Abstractor: As Provided Number of References: 29 Entry Date: 2017

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