First-Year English Courses for Nursing Students at Mahidol University

Authors

Amara Sangchanthamanee

Publication Date

1981-01-01

Abstract

Mahidol University, like other universities in Thailand which provide an ESP program for their students, faces the problem of providing instruction in the kinds of English required by students in different disciplines. Our department is small with only 12 instructors to serve approximately 700 students from different fields of studies e.g. medical science, science, nursing science, dentistry, pharmarcy, health science, medical technology, etc. We have been using the same general ESP materials prepared by our department for students in different disciplines for many years. However, some groups of our students found the materials quite easy. Also some groups of students had particular needs. For example, our nurses needed to be able to describe about a patient's condition, to take notes, to abbreviate and to use specialized instructions and measurements in nursing science (blood pressure, temperature, pulse rate etc.). Therefore, we started to prepare new materials for our nursing students 2 years ago.

DOI

10.58837/CHULA.PASAA.11.2.6

First Page

68

Last Page

70

Recommended Citation

Sangchanthamanee, Amara (1981) "First-Year English Courses for Nursing Students at Mahidol University," PASAA: Vol. 11: Iss. 2, Article 6.
DOI: 10.58837/CHULA.PASAA.11.2.6
Available at: https://digital.car.chula.ac.th/pasaa/vol11/iss2/6