Learning to read patient notes in the workplace: How reading aloud and reading alongside can help students for whom English is an additional language

IF 3.2 1区 文学 Q1 LINGUISTICS English for Specific Purposes Pub Date : 2024-05-08 DOI:10.1016/j.esp.2024.04.003
Caroline Havery
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Much of the recent research in English for nursing has focused on the specialised spoken discourses rather than the written documentation that nursing students need for patient care. However, patient documentation can be challenging to learn, particularly for some students for whom English is an additional language. This study investigated how novice English as an additional language students learned to read patient documentation during their work placements, and the role that their workplace supervisors played in helping them learn. An ethnographic approach and discourse analysis of workplace interactions with three supervisors and 16 students in three Australian hospitals showed that most nursing students observed required explicit guidance from their supervisors to read the documentation and to understand the linguistic and rhetorical functions of those notes. The findings suggest that developing reading skills in the workplace should involve explicit guidance in learning to read the requisite documentation. It is recommended that English for Specific Purposes courses for nursing students pay attention to written as well as spoken discourses and that language specialists work with nursing educators to provide professional development for workplace supervisors and to ensure that guidelines and expectations for reading documentation are clear for supervisors and students.

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在工作场所学习阅读病人笔记:朗读和并读如何帮助英语是额外语言的学生
最近的护理英语研究大多集中在专业口语对话上,而不是护理专业学生在病人护理中所需的书面文件上。然而,病人文件的学习具有一定的挑战性,尤其是对一些英语为附加语言的学生而言。本研究调查了英语作为额外语言的新手学生如何在实习期间学习阅读病人文件,以及他们的工作场所主管在帮助他们学习方面所发挥的作用。研究采用人种学方法,对澳大利亚三家医院的三位督导和 16 名学生的工作场所互动进行了话语分析,结果表明,所观察到的大多数护理专业学生都需要督导的明确指导才能阅读文件,并理解这些笔记的语言和修辞功能。研究结果表明,在工作场所培养阅读技能应包括明确指导学生学习阅读必要的文件。建议为护理专业学生开设的特定用途英语课程应关注书面和口头表达,语言专家应与护理教育工作者合作,为工作场所的督导人员提供专业培训,并确保督导人员和学生明确阅读文件的指导原则和期望。
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期刊介绍: English For Specific Purposes is an international peer-reviewed journal that welcomes submissions from across the world. Authors are encouraged to submit articles and research/discussion notes on topics relevant to the teaching and learning of discourse for specific communities: academic, occupational, or otherwise specialized. Topics such as the following may be treated from the perspective of English for specific purposes: second language acquisition in specialized contexts, needs assessment, curriculum development and evaluation, materials preparation, discourse analysis, descriptions of specialized varieties of English.
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