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Journal of Medical Education for Future Demands
Former Title: Journal of Medical Education | The Official Journal of School of Medical Education and Learning Technologies
e-ISSN 3117-4655
p-ISSN 1735-3998
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Can ESP be tested by EGP?
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1Faculty member of Paramedical Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences and Health Services.
*Corresponding Author: Faculty member of Paramedical Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences and Health Services. Email: m.ahmadi@author.com
Published online:Mar 17, 2009
Article type:Research Article
Received:Mar 14, 2009
Accepted:Mar 17, 2009
How to Cite:Ahmadi M. Can ESP be tested by EGP?. J Med Edu. 2003;3(1):e105012. doi: https://doi.org/10.22037/jme.v3i1.867
Abstract
Background: There are two main methods employed for the evaluation of the reading comprehension ability of students of ESP; one using specialized English texts, and the other with general English texts.Purpose: To determine whether or not there is a correlation between the two methods. Methods: In the regular 1998 examinations for admission to PhD courses for 18 different medical disciplines, in which 30 subject-specific English test items were given to the applicants of each discipline, all of them were alsoevaluated using a set of 30 general English test items (n=201 0).Results: There was a positive correlation of71% between the scores of the examinees in the two tests, the highest and the lowest correlation being respectively in the scores of the applicants of Epidemiology (84%; n=118), and environmental health (56%; n=70).Conclusion: Our finding seems to warrant the use of EGP test as an adequate measure of English language competency for academic purposes.
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© 2003, Author(s). This open-access article is available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which allows for unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited.
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