STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILL INMEDICAL ENGLISH SUBJECT AT MIDWIFERY STUDENTS

Clinically speaking: A communication skills program for students from non-English speaking backgrounds.

This paper reports on the design, delivery and evaluation of an innovative oral communication skills program for first year students in a Bachelor of Nursing degree at an Australian university. This program was introduced in 2004 to meet the needs of first year undergraduate students from non-English speaking backgrounds who had experienced difficulties with spoken English while on clinical pla...

The English Intonation Influence on Chinese Lexical Tones Produced by English- speaking Students of Chinese

Introduction For Chinese as Foreign Language (CFL) learners, tones are one of the most difficult aspects to master, especially for students whose first language (L1) is not a tonal language, such as English. There could be many reasons that may cause these Englishspeaking CFL learners’ tonal errors, but among them a very influential factor may be a prosodic feature in their L1 —English intonati...

Towards Unprejudiced Midwifery Care — Midwifery Students’ Views on Homosexuality

An Analysis of Factors Influencing Learners’ English Speaking Skill

Speaking is one of the most important skills to be developed and enhanced as means of effective communication. Speaking skill is regarded one of the most difficult aspects of language learning. Many language learners find it difficult to express themselves in spoken language. They are generally facing problems to use the foreign language to express their thoughts effectively. They stop talking ...

Practical Midwifery for Students, Nurses, and Practitioners