Assessing Thai Nursing College Students’ Speaking Ability through the Perspectives of Their Indonesian Counterparts

Anggoro, Sapto Dwi (2020) Assessing Thai Nursing College Students’ Speaking Ability through the Perspectives of Their Indonesian Counterparts. VELES : Voices of English Language Education Society, 4 (1). pp. 1-10. ISSN 2579-7484

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Abstract

The need of speaking skill is inevitable in some areas of majors. Nursing students are expected to have good command of English due to the available opportunities to work abroad. The existence of academic exchange program could be viewed as one of an alternative learning method that may fit the needs of learning experience for EFL students. This study was a qualitative research that aimed at finding communication problems encountered by Indonesian nursing students in their interactions with their counterparts during the academic exchange program held in a nursing college in Thailand. The participants of the study were six Indonesian nursing college students taking part in the academic exchange program in Thailand. The instruments of the study were audio transcripts and interviews. The data were collected through audio recording during the academic exchange in Thailand and the interviews were conducted as the students returned to their home country. The results of the study showed that the communication problems encountered by Indonesian nursing students due to Thai students speaking ability were in terms of: mispronunciations, incorrect word choices, and grammatical errors. Subsequently it was also found that Thai nursing students used several strategies to cope with their speaking problems by for assistance, miming, and making repetition. Keywords: Thai Nursing Students, Indonesian Nursing Students, Speaking ability, academic exchange. 1

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PL Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Depositing User:	Unnamed user with email nadiaokhtiary@stikeshangtuah-sby.ac.id
Date Deposited:	29 Apr 2020 09:24
Last Modified:	29 Apr 2020 09:24
URI:	http://repository.stikeshangtuah-sby.ac.id/id/eprint/1

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