A Proposal of Listening Exercises for First Year Medicine Students
Listening comprehension is one of the linguistic skills to be considered in English language teaching. The present paper is aimed at designing exercises to strengthen the development of listening skills in first year medicine students at the University of Medical Sciences of Cienfuegos. In order to...
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Centro Provincial de Información de Ciencias Médicas. Cienfuegos
2013-02-01
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| author | Dileys Alejo Segrera Yaima Sabatela Hernández Lázaro Hernández Rodríguez Miriam Damaris Padilla Labrada |
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| description | Listening comprehension is one of the linguistic skills to be considered in English language teaching. The present paper is aimed at designing exercises to strengthen the development of listening skills in first year medicine students at the University of Medical Sciences of Cienfuegos. In order to conduct this research, it was performed the analysis of the official documents governing the discipline so that we could identify weaknesses in the existing programs. Instruments of qualitative methodology were applied such as surveys to teachers for the diagnose of learning needs of future professionals and a diagnostic test for first year medicine students to determine the major challenges in the domain of communicative skills. Triangulation of these results justified and guided the proposal described in this paper. It was validated by a group of specialists in the Languages Department who agreed on its successful implementation during the 2011-2012 accademical course, which has showed significant progress in the mastering of listening skills. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-884b76af59f64209a46311d42e163bad2024-03-04T23:09:42ZspaCentro Provincial de Información de Ciencias Médicas. CienfuegosMedisur1727-897X2013-02-01111614952A Proposal of Listening Exercises for First Year Medicine StudentsDileys Alejo Segrera0Yaima Sabatela Hernández1Lázaro Hernández Rodríguez2Miriam Damaris Padilla Labrada3Universidad de Ciencias Médicas. Cienfuegos.Universidad de Ciencias Médicas. Cienfuegos.Universidad de Ciencias Médicas. Cienfuegos.Universidad de Ciencias Médicas. Cienfuegos.Listening comprehension is one of the linguistic skills to be considered in English language teaching. The present paper is aimed at designing exercises to strengthen the development of listening skills in first year medicine students at the University of Medical Sciences of Cienfuegos. In order to conduct this research, it was performed the analysis of the official documents governing the discipline so that we could identify weaknesses in the existing programs. Instruments of qualitative methodology were applied such as surveys to teachers for the diagnose of learning needs of future professionals and a diagnostic test for first year medicine students to determine the major challenges in the domain of communicative skills. Triangulation of these results justified and guided the proposal described in this paper. It was validated by a group of specialists in the Languages Department who agreed on its successful implementation during the 2011-2012 accademical course, which has showed significant progress in the mastering of listening skills.http://medisur.sld.cu/index.php/medisur/article/view/2358comprensiónlenguajeaptitudenseñanzaestudiantes de medicina |
| spellingShingle | Dileys Alejo Segrera Yaima Sabatela Hernández Lázaro Hernández Rodríguez Miriam Damaris Padilla Labrada A Proposal of Listening Exercises for First Year Medicine Students Medisur comprensión lenguaje aptitud enseñanza estudiantes de medicina |
| title | A Proposal of Listening Exercises for First Year Medicine Students |
| title_full | A Proposal of Listening Exercises for First Year Medicine Students |
| title_fullStr | A Proposal of Listening Exercises for First Year Medicine Students |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Proposal of Listening Exercises for First Year Medicine Students |
| title_short | A Proposal of Listening Exercises for First Year Medicine Students |
| title_sort | proposal of listening exercises for first year medicine students |
| topic | comprensión lenguaje aptitud enseñanza estudiantes de medicina |
| url | http://medisur.sld.cu/index.php/medisur/article/view/2358 |
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