2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Assessment of a new nursing English curriculum focusing on intercultural competence
| Project/Area Number |
20K00828
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 02100:Foreign language education-related
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| Research Institution | Chiba University |
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Principal Investigator |
Casenove David 千葉大学, 大学院看護学研究院, 助教 (10646657)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
酒井 郁子 千葉大学, 大学院看護学研究院, 教授 (10197767)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2020-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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| Keywords | Nursing education / Nursing English / Cultural competence |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
We collected complete quantitative and qualitative survey data from 50 volunteer undergraduate students over 2 years. The data focused on the usage of nursing English for academic purposes by students enrolled in elective courses and the data included students from two speaking courses, one writing course, one presentation course, and one web-based exchange program (Collaborative Online International Learning). The new English curriculum at Chiba University School of Nursing was shown to provide a continuous and impactful connection to English as a lingua franca in terms of increasing students' openness to other ways of communicating verbally or non-verbally, promoting critical thinking and cultural self-awareness, and acquiring practical skills to use English in a nursing context. Our results were shared in international conferences and published in science education outlets.
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| Free Research Field |
Curriculum design
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
Our results support the implementation of English language courses in nursing education to facilitate the acquisition of general openness in Japanese students at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
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