Developing Esp Nursing Based on Communicative Language Teaching

Abstract

ESP nursing materials is an important component in the success of educational programs, especially in the field of nursing. The development of English learning is now more emphasis on the authenticity of the material that is contextual activities or work involved, one of which is in nursing profession. Communicative language teaching (CLT) sets principles about the teaching of communicative competence not confined to verbal communication but also includes written communication, consists of four skills especially on ESP nursing based on nursing care (assessment, nursing diagnosis, planning(intervention & implementation, and evaluation) as the main source of objective achievement in teaching learning process. The development method used is adapted from Borg and Gall's model involved 24 students, 1 expert in English education, 2 experts in nursing education, and 1 practitioner of hospital. Researchers developed materials (4 chapters) based needs analysis (students’ need and reviewing existing syllabus) with four language skills. Result of expert validation (materials evaluation based on contents, exercises, communication, and general elements) was very good (average score 3.5) and result of students’ try out to give the decision of the product quality, the average score was 3.2, it meant the materials was acceptable and eligible to be used by the nursing students as autonomous learning. In conclusion, the final product can be used as a model of instructional materials to teach English nursing as ESP materials.
 Keywords: ESP Nursing, CLT, Material Development

Developing English for Nurses in Indonesia: From Learning Supporting Tools to Assessment

“…Although learning materials will become the further development goal and have not been embodied, it will be a small part of its continuation because other devices such as curriculum and competency standard have been realised. This development did not only realise learning materials of English for nurses (Putra et al, 2019;Fadillah et al, 2018) or focus on drawing skills learners need in an English proficiency test (Yuyun et al, 2014), developing English for nursing materials based on communicative language teaching (Febrijanto et al, 2017), or developing and validating an English language teacher competence test (Pishghadam et al, 2011) but rather all of the above. Almost all of the research outputs embodied by the abovementioned researchers were covered by this development.…”

“…Although there have been some academic efforts like reviewing, validating, examining, and even developing nursing-related tests, they have been only partially undertaken. Some studies have been conducted on developing English for nurses' learning materials (Putra et al, 2019), analysing skills learners need in English proficiency tests (Yuyun et al, 2014), developing English speaking materials for nursing students (Fadillah et al, 2018), developing English for nursing materials based on communicative language teaching (Febrijanto et al, 2017), and developing and validating English language teacher competence tests (Pishghadam et al, 2011). However, a wholistic effort to develop an English for nursing competency test and its supporting tools which can help institutions, teachers, instructors, and lecturers instruct, assess, and develop curriculum and materials for English for nurses courses has not yet been made.…”