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Nurses are required to engage in a wide array of communicative activities, involving all four lan... more Nurses are required to engage in a wide array of communicative activities, involving all four language skills, for a range of functions that are central to successful healthcare. Many of these are not addressed in the IELTS test papers.
This thesis is an investigation of academic literacy practices on postgraduate English Studies pr... more This thesis is an investigation of academic literacy practices on postgraduate English Studies programmes in two different national contexts in Europe, Hungary and Italy. It examines the transnational comparability of university qualifications in relation to the Bologna Declaration, which currently has forty-seven European signatory countries, and constitutes an agreement to create a higher education space in Europe with a common system of 'readable' and 'comparable' degrees. In the spirit of the Bologna Process, the thesis explores what a student would need to know and be able to do to complete written assignments on a postgraduate English Studies programme in a different European cultural and linguistic context. An 'ethnographic-style' approach was adopted to collect 'rich' data on graded written work from each programme at the end of the assessment period. The thesis focuses on six MA theses, which were treated as separate case studies. The dataset...
International journal of nursing studies, 2017
Non-native speakers of English who hold nursing qualifications from outside the UK are required t... more Non-native speakers of English who hold nursing qualifications from outside the UK are required to provide evidence of English language competence by achieving a minimum overall score of Band 7 on the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) academic test. To describe the English language required to deal with the daily demands of nursing in the UK. To compare these abilities with the stipulated levels on the language test. A tracking study was conducted with 4 nurses, and focus groups with 11 further nurses. The transcripts of the interviews and focus groups were analysed thematically for recurrent themes. These findings were then compared with the requirements of the IELTS spoken test. The study was conducted outside the participants' working shifts in busy London hospitals. The participants in the tracking study were selected opportunistically;all were trained in non-English speaking countries. Snowball sampling was used for the focus groups, of whom 4 were non-n...
Language Assessment Quarterly, 2007
From June to November 2003 an exploratory survey was made of the assessment of written English in... more From June to November 2003 an exploratory survey was made of the assessment of written English in a small sample of English language degrees in Europe. All programmes had similar components, the study of English language and literature, cultural or area studies, and English language development. Some involved the study of another language. Theoretical perspectives on test validity informed the
Nurses are required to engage in a wide array of communicative activities, involving all four lan... more Nurses are required to engage in a wide array of communicative activities, involving all four language skills, for a range of functions that are central to successful healthcare. Many of these are not addressed in the IELTS test papers.
This thesis is an investigation of academic literacy practices on postgraduate English Studies pr... more This thesis is an investigation of academic literacy practices on postgraduate English Studies programmes in two different national contexts in Europe, Hungary and Italy. It examines the transnational comparability of university qualifications in relation to the Bologna Declaration, which currently has forty-seven European signatory countries, and constitutes an agreement to create a higher education space in Europe with a common system of 'readable' and 'comparable' degrees. In the spirit of the Bologna Process, the thesis explores what a student would need to know and be able to do to complete written assignments on a postgraduate English Studies programme in a different European cultural and linguistic context. An 'ethnographic-style' approach was adopted to collect 'rich' data on graded written work from each programme at the end of the assessment period. The thesis focuses on six MA theses, which were treated as separate case studies. The dataset...
International journal of nursing studies, 2017
Non-native speakers of English who hold nursing qualifications from outside the UK are required t... more Non-native speakers of English who hold nursing qualifications from outside the UK are required to provide evidence of English language competence by achieving a minimum overall score of Band 7 on the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) academic test. To describe the English language required to deal with the daily demands of nursing in the UK. To compare these abilities with the stipulated levels on the language test. A tracking study was conducted with 4 nurses, and focus groups with 11 further nurses. The transcripts of the interviews and focus groups were analysed thematically for recurrent themes. These findings were then compared with the requirements of the IELTS spoken test. The study was conducted outside the participants' working shifts in busy London hospitals. The participants in the tracking study were selected opportunistically;all were trained in non-English speaking countries. Snowball sampling was used for the focus groups, of whom 4 were non-n...
Language Assessment Quarterly, 2007
From June to November 2003 an exploratory survey was made of the assessment of written English in... more From June to November 2003 an exploratory survey was made of the assessment of written English in a small sample of English language degrees in Europe. All programmes had similar components, the study of English language and literature, cultural or area studies, and English language development. Some involved the study of another language. Theoretical perspectives on test validity informed the