Medical Students' Reflective Thinking in Their ESP Courses and The Inhibitors: A Mixed Method Study

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Farahian Majid; Rajabi Yusef

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Journal: EDUCATIONAL STRATEGIES Year:2020 | Volume:13 | Issue:5 Page(s): 471-479

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Medical Students' Reflective Thinking in Their ESP Courses and The Inhibitors: A Mixed Method Study

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Farahian Majid | Rajabi Yusef | Issue Writer Certificate

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Introduction: Reflective thinking as a vital educational asset has to be recognized and developed across the medical curricula. The present study investigated Medical students' levels of Reflective thinking in English for specific purposes (ESP) course and the obstacles which deter their reflection. Methods: As a mixed-method descriptive study, the present study made use of two groups of participants drawn from among the population of Medical students and instructors. The first group of participants included Medical students who were either attending ESP course or had already passed it successfully, and the second group were ESP instructors teaching the course at medical colleges of Sanandaj, Khoram Abad, and Hamedan. A researcher-made questionnaire that was developed substantially on the basis of Kember et al's scale (2000) was employed as the main instrument to examine the students' Reflective thinking. To consolidate the findings, the students were also asked to write short essays. As the next step, the instructors were interviewed in order to probe the barriers to Medical students' reflection in ESP course. Results: As the findings revealed, Iranian Medical students studying English for academic purposes do not make use of higher order thinking and they involve in lower levels of reflection such as habitual actions and understanding in order to learn the foreign language. Regarding the barriers, various reasons were found which deter implementing Reflective thinking in the ESP course. Conclusion: The results give curriculum developers, and ESP instructors awareness regarding the low levels of higher order thinking in Medical students. As participating instructors stated, the insufficient instruction on higher-order thinking, the hierarchical nature of Educational system, and the instructors' reluctance to help Medical students develop higher-order thinking skills are amongst the main barriers ahead of reflective practices in Iranian medical colleges.

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Farahian, Majid, & Rajabi, Yusef. (2020). Medical Students' Reflective Thinking in Their ESP Courses and The Inhibitors: A Mixed Method Study. EDUCATIONAL STRATEGIES, 13(5 ), 471-479. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/415773/en

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Farahian Majid, Rajabi Yusef. Medical Students' Reflective Thinking in Their ESP Courses and The Inhibitors: A Mixed Method Study. EDUCATIONAL STRATEGIES[Internet]. 2020;13(5 ):471-479. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/415773/en

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Majid Farahian, and Yusef Rajabi, “Medical Students' Reflective Thinking in Their ESP Courses and The Inhibitors: A Mixed Method Study,” EDUCATIONAL STRATEGIES, vol. 13, no. 5 , pp. 471–479, 2020, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/415773/en

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