Study on the content-based instruction on english for specific purpose

Abstract

Background/Objectives: As the world keeps growing closer through globalization, the need to nurture competent medical professionals fit for our times is increasing. Methods/Statistical analysis: The questionnaire consisted of a section on personal information and an opinion on English language training for dental hygiene students. In order to investigate learning needs and target needs, dental hygiene students were surveyed. Findings: The anonymous survey consisted of parts pertaining to personal information, learners’ needs about dental hygienist’ tasks, and open comments about English education for dental hygiene students. These finding includes the differences and similarities in the importance ranking of notion, function, and type of language skills between the three study groups. These results also show differences depending on categories such as grade levels, or the type of medical institute. Improvements/Applications: The selected concepts and functions of this study will be the basic information for developing the ESP course curriculum to train professionals in the medical field. Based on these results, a content-based teaching method for improving English for special purpose education for dental hygienists and students has been proposed.