Assessing the English Vocabulary Size of Nursing Students

護理學生的英文單字量評估

楊名暖(Ming-Nuan Yang)

《長庚科技學刊》 15期 (2011/12) Pp. 113-131

https://doi.org/10.6192/CGUST.2011.12.15.9

摘要

本研究的目的是探討護理學生的英文革字量。本研究主要是調查大學一二年級的護理學生的識讀單字量及應用單字量，此外本研究特別探討護理學生在大學前兩年的單字量變化情形。參與本研究的學生是來自北臺灣的一所技術學院的四班大一大二護理學生。測量工具是利用識讀及應用單字檢測（The Receptive and Productive Vocabulary Levels Tests）。研究結果顯示這些護理學生的識讀單字量大約是介於1000字至2000字，而應用單字是在1000字之內，有16%的學生超過1,0 00字，只有少數學生可以通過2000字以上的測試。另外也發現這些護理學生的字彙量會隨年級的增加而增進。瞭解護理學生的單字知識可以幫助老師瞭解學生的學習挫折和困難，也可以幫助老師發展出有效的學習策略，並進而提升學生的單字量。

關鍵字

單字量 ； 識讀單字 ； 應用單字

並列摘要

The goal of this study was to investigate the English vocabulary knowledge of nursing preprofessionals. Specifically, this study was conducted to assess nursing pre-professionals’ receptive as well as productive vocabulary knowledge and how nursing pre-professionals’ vocabulary size grows over the first two years of their college study. The participants consisted of four classes of nursing preprofessionals from one technological institute in northern Taiwan. The Receptive and ProductiveVocabulary Levels Tests was used to assess the participants’ vocabulary size. The receptive vocabulary size of most nursing pre-professionals participating in this study fell between 1,000 and 2,000 words. As for their productive vocabulary knowledge, only 16% of the participants reached the 1,000-word level, and very few of them could pass the other word levels. The results of inferential statistics tests suggested that both receptive and productive vocabulary knowledge of these nursing pre-professionals increased significantly during their first two years of university study. Understanding nursing pre-professionals’ vocabulary size may help English teachers and teachers of other subjects to become more aware of these pre-professionals’ frustrations and difficulties in learning general English and nursing English. In addition, it might enable EFL teachers to help students develop effective vocabulary-learning strategies and ultimately improve their overall English proficiency.

並列關鍵字

vocabulary size ； receptive vocabulary ； productive vocabulary