مجلة الواحات للبحوث و الدراسات
Volume 16, Numéro 1, Pages 848-864
2023-06-07

English For Medical Purposes In Algeria: Challenges And Solutions

Authors : Boumaza Abdelouahab .

Abstract

As many domains, teaching English to medical doctors has become a necessity as a lingua franca in the age of globalization., in Algeria, however, where medicine is taught in French, this necessity has taken time to be a reality. Thus, learning experience in this context is challenging because of different difficulties doctors may face with English. A review of EFL and ESP literatures provides many approaches to address the issue. These approaches have given sound theoretical and empirical proofs of efficiency worldwide. Content based instruction, as this paper attempts to show, is an instance to adopt in such situation. This conclusion is drawn from both literature and a study in which thirty-five medical specialists in Touggourt, Algeria responded to a questionnaire used as a data collection tool.

Keywords

Medicine ; Algeria ; English Teaching ; English for Medical Purposes ; Content Based Instruction