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Upgrading Nursing Students’ Foreign Language and Communication Skills: A Qualitative Inquiry of the Afterschool Enhancement Programmes

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  • Luis Miguel Dos Santos

    (Department of Global Convergence Management, Finance and Tax Management, Endicott College, Woosong University, Daejeon 34514, Korea)

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Learning a foreign language is not easy for many students, particularly for nursing students who need to complete their internships in the hospital. However, motivation always drives them to the foreign language classrooms. The purpose of this study was to understand the motivations and reasons behind why these nursing students decided to study Mandarin Chinese as part of their personal development and enhancement beyond the curriculum. One main question and one sub-research question were written, why would nursing students decide to take Chinese as the tool for foreign language and culture development? What and why are the reasons and motivations for nursing students to take Chinese beyond their curriculum? The qualitative case study method was employed in order to investigate 36 nursing university students in the United Kingdom. The results of this study concluded that nursing students tend to study Chinese due to personal development and career goals. School leaders, department heads, government leaders, policymakers, human resources professionals, vocational trainers, and researchers may take this study as the opportunity to reform their current human resource and education plans to offer foreign language courses to university students, members of the public, learners, and interested parties for both personal development and career enhancements.

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  • Luis Miguel Dos Santos, 2021. "Upgrading Nursing Students’ Foreign Language and Communication Skills: A Qualitative Inquiry of the Afterschool Enhancement Programmes," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(10), pages 1-11, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:18:y:2021:i:10:p:5112-:d:552804
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    1. Luis Miguel Dos Santos, 2020. "I Want to Become a Registered Nurse as a Non-Traditional, Returning, Evening, and Adult Student in a Community College: A Study of Career-Changing Nursing Students," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(16), pages 1-20, August.
    2. Luis Miguel Dos Santos, 2020. "The Challenges of Public Health, Social Work, and Psychological Counselling Services in South Korea: The Issues of Limited Support and Resource," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(8), pages 1-14, April.
    3. Kai Hong Tang & Luis Miguel Dos Santos, 2017. "A Brief Discussion and Application of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis in the Field of Health Science and Public Health," International Journal of Learning and Development, Macrothink Institute, vol. 7(3), pages 123-132, September.
    4. Luis Miguel Dos Santos, 2020. "I Teach Nursing as a Male Nursing Educator: The East Asian Perspective, Context, and Social Cognitive Career Experiences," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(12), pages 1-15, June.
    5. Luis Miguel Dos Santos, 2020. "Becoming University Language Teachers in South Korea: The Application of the Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis and Social Cognitive Career Theory," Journal of Education and e-Learning Research, Asian Online Journal Publishing Group, vol. 7(3), pages 250-257.
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