Title: How Medical Students and Doctors Can Use Online Materials to Improve Their English Speaking Skills
Stream: Foreign Languages Education & Applied Linguistics (including ESL/TESL/TEFL)
Presentation Type: Live-Stream Presentation
Authors:
Eiko Kawagoe, Jikei University of Health Care Sciences, Japan
Abstract:
Objective: In this global era, we need doctors with high medical English skills. Japanese doctors, however, are particularly weak in English-speaking skills. The purpose of this project is to verify if English online training improves English fluency.
Method: We used English conversation material from the online ESL platform EnglishCentral. Sixty-three medical students and eleven medical doctors took 25-minute lessons for one month. Each participant took a standardized test to check their English level at the beginning of the course, and a progress test at the end. Afterwards, those who wished to continue the lessons could do so.
Results: EnglishCentral scores its students for their speaking levels on a scale of 1 to 7. Nine out of seventy-four participants succeeded in raising their levels after using EnglishCentral. All of the nine participants who were successful continued their training at least for two months. For example, two students who continued for two months rose their levels by one, from level three to four. Two students continued for four months. One rose two levels, from level three to five. The other went from level two to five.
Conclusion: It was verified that speaking English for 25 minutes every day began to be effective in two months. It was fully effective in four months. If medical departments in Japan implement this type of program, it will certainly increase the number of doctors who can be active on the global stage.
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