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Mathew Porter, Fukuoka Jo Gakuin Nursing University; Jonathan Yoh Levine-Ogura, Iwate Medical University; Hayley MacCallum, Yokohama City University; Paul Mathieson, Nara Medicine University; Simon Capper, Japanese Red Cross Hiroshima College of

 

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Porter, M., Levine-Ogura, J. Y., MacCallum, H., Mathieson, P., Capper, S., & Pauly, M. (2025). Enhancing English Instruction for Japanese Nursing Students. In B. Lacy, M. Swanson, & P. Lege (Eds.), Moving JALT Into the Future: Opportunity, Diversity, and Excellence. JALT. https://doi.org/10.37546/JALTPCP2024-29

 

This paper provides a summary of the forum on English for Nursing Purposes (ENP), which was organized by the Japan Association for Nursing English Teaching. Six English instructors with experience teaching nursing students in Japan served as panelists and introduced their teaching contexts, which was followed by an introduction to factors influencing the teaching of nursing students to care for culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) patients. These factors include Japan’s growing population of foreign residents and tourists, initiatives by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare to enhance care for CALD patients, and the low priority given to language studies within nursing programs. Panelists and participants then explored topics relevant to instructors of nursing English such as textbook selection, course content and classroom management, the integration of AI in language learning, and revision of the English curricula within nursing departments.

本稿は、日本看護英語教育学会が主催した看護英語教育(ENP)フォーラムの概要をまとめたものである。本フォーラムには、日本で看護学生に英語を教えた経験を持つ6名の英語教員がパネリストとして参加し、それぞれの教育現場について紹介を行った。その後、文化的・言語的に多様な(CALD)患者に対応できる看護学生の教育に影響を与えるさまざまな要因が話題に上った。これらの要因には、日本における外国人居住者や観光客の増加、CALD患者への医療の質の向上を目指す厚生労働省の取り組み、看護教育課程における語学教育の優先度の低さが含まれる。続いて、パネリストと参加者は、看護英語教育に関わる教員にとって重要なテーマである教科書選定、授業設計と運営、語学学習におけるAIの活用、看護学部における英語カリキュラムの見直し等についての意見交換を行った。

 

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