The Effectiveness of Cooperative Learning in Teaching English for Specific Purposes to the Students of Nursing Regarding Pronunciation

Zeinab  Sanaee Moghadam; Fatemeh  Sanaee Moghadam; Saeed  Zarein-Dolab; Vahed  Zarifi; Amrollah  Roozbehi

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The Effectiveness of Cooperative Learning in Teaching English for Specific Purposes to the Students of Nursing Regarding Pronunciation

Authors:

Zeinab Sanaee Moghadam ¹,

Fatemeh Sanaee Moghadam ²,

Saeed Zarein-Dolab ³,

Vahed Zarifi ⁴,

Amrollah Roozbehi ^5,*

1School of Medical Education, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

2Kaosar Pardis, Yasuj Univesity of Farhangiyan, Yasuj, Iran

3Dept. of English Language, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

4School of Literature and Foreign Languages, Yasuj University, Yasuj, Iran

5Education Development Center, Yasuj University of Medical Sciences, Yasuj, Iran

Educational Research in Medical Sciences:Vol. 5, issue 1; e79178

Published online:Jun 10, 2016

Article type:Research Article

Received:Aug 09, 2015

Accepted:Jan 31, 2016

How to Cite:Zeinab Sanaee Moghadam Fatemeh Sanaee Moghadam Saeed Zarein-Dolab Vahed Zarifi Amrollah Roozbehi The Effectiveness of Cooperative Learning in Teaching English for Specific Purposes to the Students of Nursing Regarding Pronunciation.5(1):e79178.

Abstract

Introduction: Language teachers can help students improve their learning of English by employing different approaches and taking into consideration various learning styles of their students. This study is an attempt to reveal the effect of cooperative learning (CL) on enhancing nursing students’ English pronunciation.

Methods: Twenty five nursing students and thirty midwifery students in Yasuj University of Medical Sciences took part in this quasi experimental study as the intervention and the comparison groups, respectively. CL was implemented with the intervention group, dividing them into groups of five while the comparison group was taught through the traditional method. Phonetic transcriptions were used along passages taken from the English for the Students of Medicine (ESM) I book with both groups. The data, collected from three oral tasks, scores of pre-test, midterm and final written examinations, were analyzed using the SPSS software, version 19, through independent sample t-test.

Results: The results of the study showed that the intervention group outperformed the comparison group significantly (P<0.05) in all areas of oral tests and pronunciation.

Conclusion: This study suggests that CL helped significantly to enhance the nursing students' pronunciation. Teaching pronunciation, done in a cooperative context, yields better learning in students.

Keywords

Cooperative learning

Nursing

Pronunciation

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