Use of Discipline-Based Authentic Materials: The Role of ESP Practitioner to Enhance Nurses’ Effective Language Skills Acquisition

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Dr. Akkara Sherine, Stanislaus Ayyadurai

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English language learning text books are important media in providing base to acquire practical language skills. It was broadly
noticed that the text books and the work books designed to be taught in B.Sc. nursing are not catering to the needs of the
language learners as they fail to motivate the nurses to acquire the language because of the very content. The content of the
text books and workbooks used in some institutes are of General English. As the role of ESP playing an important role, lot of
researches have been undertaken to design and adapt the methods or the approaches of teaching and learning that are ESP
related. Text book analysis was carried out to study the reason behind the ineffectiveness of the language text books used in
two different nursing institutes. It was noted that there are number of reasons how the content of the text books couldn’t be
motivating and sufficient enough to acquire the language skills. Text book analysis helped the researchers that inclusion of
discipline- based texts to teach reading skills, discipline-based listening scripts to teach listening skills, discipline-based topics
and genres of writing to practice writing skills and discipline-based situational speaking contexts to enhance speaking skills
which will probably reap the learning objectives of the course in successfully acquiring practical language skills.

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