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Yemeni medicine students’ competence in medical English collocations

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: This article focuses on Yemeni medicine students’ competence in medical English collocations and the potential challenges impeding their competence in medical English collocations. A mixed quantitative and qualitative approach was adopted by means of two tools: a collocational receptive-productive competence test and a closed-ended questionnaire. The results reveal Yemeni medicine students’ incompetence in medical English collocations, with an overall 30.38% of correct answers in the receptive test and 34.5% in the productive test. EMP teachers’ insufficient awareness of medical collocations, EMP syllabuses disregard of medical colloca-tions, adoption of traditional methods in teaching EMP, and students’ unawareness of the im-portance of medical collocations are listed as the main challenges hindering students’ compe-tence in medical English collocations. Key words: collocational competence; medical English; Yemeni medicine-students.

Source: ExELL

DOI: 10.51558/2303-4858.2024.12.2.306

Authors: Abdullah Al-Eryani, Abdulwadood Annuzaili, Sadiah Alwesabi

Institutions: Sana'a University, 21 September University for Medical and Applied Sciences

Language: English

Topic: Second Language Acquisition and Learning

Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4407178060

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