Deng Jiaqi, Zhou Kaiji, Al-Shaibani Ghayth K S
School of Foreign Languages, Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, China.
Department of Education, Faculty of Social Sciences and Liberty Arts, UCSI University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Front Psychol. 2022 Aug 10;13:895117. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.895117. eCollection 2022.
This study adapts a Medical English Language Anxiety Scale (MELAS) based on Horwitz's Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) and examines students' anxiety in medical English vocabulary, listening and speaking, communication, literature reading, and academic paper writing. The biographical factors related to medical English language anxiety (MELA) were also tested. The questionnaire sets including five dimensions were distributed to the students from a medical university in Sichuan, China, and were statistically analyzed by using SPSS 22.0 and AMOS 21.0. By employing the adapted MELAS, it was found that 85.2% of the medical students surveyed suffered moderate and higher anxiety. Among all dimensions, students with listening and speaking anxiety recorded the highest (89.3%), followed by literature reading anxiety (86.6%), English academic writing anxiety (85.9%), communication anxiety (81.9%), and vocabulary learning anxiety (81.2%). We also found that the anxiety of rural medical students in each dimension was higher than that of urban medical students. This study suggests that English teachers should be fully aware of their students' language anxiety situation, design interesting class activities, and create a relaxed English learning atmosphere in classroom teaching to make students less nervous when learning medical English in class.
本研究基于霍维茨的外语课堂焦虑量表（FLCAS）改编了医学英语语言焦虑量表（MELAS），并考察了学生在医学英语词汇、听力与口语、交流、文学阅读及学术论文写作方面的焦虑情况。还对与医学英语语言焦虑（MELA）相关的个人因素进行了测试。将包含五个维度的问卷发放给中国四川某医科大学的学生，并使用SPSS 22.0和AMOS 21.0进行统计分析。通过使用改编后的MELAS发现，接受调查的医学生中有85.2%存在中度及以上焦虑。在所有维度中，听力与口语焦虑的学生比例最高（89.3%），其次是文学阅读焦虑（86.6%）、英语学术写作焦虑（85.9%）、交流焦虑（81.9%）和词汇学习焦虑（81.2%）。我们还发现，农村医学生在各维度的焦虑程度均高于城市医学生。本研究表明，英语教师应充分了解学生的语言焦虑状况，设计有趣的课堂活动，在课堂教学中营造轻松的英语学习氛围，以使学生在医学英语课堂学习时不那么紧张。
