Chinese nursing postgraduates’ views on implementing outcome-oriented academic English course: a descriptive study†

Abstract

Background: According to previous studies on professional English course teaching, the evaluation of course teaching was positive, but the vast majorities focus on medical English literature reading, professional English vocabulary, and professional English translation. As an alternative, the course design based on academic learning needs under the outcome-oriented education/model emphasizes the improvement of students’ comprehensive ability in oral expression, literature reading, writing, and academic communication.

Keywords

• course outcome
• curriculum
• english for specific purpose
• outcome-oriented model
• postgraduate nursing education
• teaching