Cortez Faustino, Blanca Santos and Ticas de Córdova, Cindy Kenia and Hernández de la Cruz, Dina Isel (2022) Teaching english for specific purposes: contents and methodologies that could be implemented in the English for Medical Purposes (EMP) course for the Doctor of Medicine Major at the University of El Salvador. Bachelor thesis, Universidad de El Salvador.

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Abstract

English for Medical Purposes (EMP) is currently one of the fields in which the teaching and learning of English has become essential. Certainly, the use of this language brings significant advantages to medical students in the development of their academic studies and future professional activities. Thus, in this research, the study program of medical English courses of four Latin American Universities serves as reference in that regard. These universities have been selected on the basis of their commitment to provide medical students opportunities to learn this language. Therefore, the methodology of the present bibliographical research consists of a systematic review of primary and secondary sources like medical syllabi of these four universities, as well as authors’ opinions and theories found in different academic papers. The findings based on the analysis of these sources have shown that, the teaching of contents of these four medical English syllabi are specifically related to medical topics and that are presented in context and in a sequenced manner. In respect to methodologies and teaching activities, they are oriented to the use of student-centered approaches. These results have the purpose of serving as suggestions to improve the current and future practices for teaching medical English at the University of El Salvador. Key words: Content ; Methodology ; English for Medical Purposes (EMP) ; Teaching activities.

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