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Volume 6, Issue 4 (Suppl)
J Nurs Care, an open access journal
ISSN: 2167-1168
World Nursing 2017
July 10-12, 2017
23
rd
World Nursing and Healthcare Conference
July 10-12, 2017 Berlin, Germany
The exploration of relationship between reading achievement and the improvement in English reading
proficiency among nursing students
Hsiao-Yun Chang
Fooyin University, Taiwan
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any nursing schools in Taiwan offer English proficiency course for nurses to successfully pursue professional nursing and
healthcare training as working environment needs. This study investigated how the relationship of progressive English reading
achievement and the improvement in English reading proficiency after the course of English for Nursing Purposes (ENP) among
nursing students. The pre and post-test design study was conducted with a total of 38 students volunteered in this study. The reading
proficiency scale and ENP reading achievement test were tested nursing students before and after the course. An inferential statistical
methods were used to analyze. The findings indicated that both English reading achievement (t=16.82, p<0.001) and English reading
proficiency (t=8.49, p<0.001) have significantly improved after the course. In addition, the English reading achievement was negative
correlation with the improvement in English reading proficiency (r=-3.63, p=0.040). The limited English reading proficiency
students showed improvement in their English reading proficiency; however, thier reading achievement may not be as good as their
improvement in their English reading proficiency. The limited English reading proficiency students may still struggle with the larning
of English language for nursing purposes and need a different learning environment in comparison to English proficient students who
may participate in an English-only course successfully. The results provide English language proficiency assessment as an extremely
important and the the need for the classification of language courses for students with different level of English proficiency to design
a desired course and learn the language effectively.
Biography
Hsiao-Yun Chang received her PhD degree in Nursing from Griffith University, Australia, in 2008. Since then, she has been working in the Department of Nursing in
Fooyin University, Taiwan, where she was an Assistant Professor and became an Associate professor in 2013. Her current research interests include adult nursing,
complementary and alternative medicine and diabetes and she has published more than 25 papers in reputed journals.
Hsiao-Yun Chang, J Nurs Care 2017, 6:4(Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2167-1168-C1-049