2016, Number 2
Análisis del nivel de inglés de futuros licenciados en nutrición de la facultad de Salud Pública y Nutrición en el curso competencia comunicativa en inglés
Rodríguez HJM, Flores GFM
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ABSTRACT
Introduction English proficiency is relevant to compete in the job market on the healthcare field. Thus, most universities consider in their curricula a communicative competence course in English. Objectives: To describe the results of a study on the analysis of English proficiency of future nutritionists enrolled in the communicative competence course at the Faculty of Public Health and Nutrition, at Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, in the period August-December 2015. Methods: Descriptive, cross sectional study. A questionnaire divided into three sections was applied to 150 students. Results: In the personal area it was found that 72.7% of students are financially dependent on their parents, 69.3% of students commute by public transportation. In the academic area, over 90% of students own a personal computer and have access to Internet at home; only 55.6% of students take this subject in the scheduled semester in the curricula. In the matter of experience with English, 40.1% of students have studied this language off their academic training; 25.8% of the students place their English proficiency in an intermediate-advanced level and just 15.9% of the students have passed the institutional Communicative Competence English Test (EXCI) required to obtain their bachelor degree. Conclusions: These results show the students’ profile that get enrolled in the “Communicative Competence in English” class. In addition, it helps to look for strategies to apply actions in order to motivate and persuade students to learn this language along their studies at college or even before, they start it.REFERENCES