LOWERING INTERCULTURAL APPREHENSION IN FOREIGN NURSES

The project studied the impact of cultural features in an ESP setting, more properly thought of as English for Medical Purposes. The EMP approach is used in this study as a focus on the teaching of English to nurses, and how that teaching should include cultural and pragmatic skills in interaction, not just technical vocabulary. Nurses in Taiwan have seldom received training in the range of varieties of English they may encounter, and they may not be aware that they can use more than one strategy in presenting requests or directives to patients. This study focused on Nursing English. By teaching appropriate cultural and pragmatic ways of handling requests and instructions, the researcher hoped to help the nurses to reduce intercultural apprehension.

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Richard Davis ha sido profesor en Taiwán durante más de 10 años. Actualmente está trabajando en su doctorado en la Universidad de Glasgow. Está interesado principalmente en ESP y EMP. Él cree que la reducción de la aprehensión intercultural es crucial para el éxito en inglés de aquellos profesionales que no se han centrado en el inglés, pero ahora deben interactuar en inglés.