International Journal of English Language and Linguistics Research (IJELLR)

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Teaching Writing to the Nursing Students: Perspectives, Problems, and Practices (Published)

This study is explored the perspectives of using technology to teach academic writing to nursing students at Northern college of Nursing. It aims to investigated the academic writing problems that faced these students and found out the practices that can be used to overcome these problems. The study followed the descriptive and analytical methods. The sample was chosen purposefully from the Northern College of Nursing, Arar, Saudi Arabia, which consists of (21) participants during the year 2022-2023. A questionnaire was used to collect the required data and the Statistical Packages for Social Science (SPSS) programme was used to analyze these data. The results of this study revealed that most of the participants believe that usage of technology facilitates teaching academic writing to nursing students and offers rich academic writing skills resources for both instructors and students. The practices should be done according to students’ levels and needs to improve their academic writing. Lack of academic writing skills and linguistic knowledge are the cause of nursing students academic writing problems. It concludes that perspectives, problems, and practices about academic writing skills of nursing students are of importance to consider carefully in the further planning and implementation of the study plans in nursing colleges. Language teachers, as well as, language courses should be increased in order to improve students’ academic writing skills.

Keywords: Perspective, Practices, Problems, teaching writing, writing in nursing

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