Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Asian ESP Journal, cilt.15, sa.1, ss.98-118, 2019 (Scopus)
In the context of a longitudinal critical needs analysis to identify the English for academic purposes needs of undergraduate medical students, this study reports on the development, reliability and validity of a questionnaire in which the items were built from medical students essays. The procedure followed in this study is expected to contribute to the recommendations put forward by Serafini, Lake and Long 2015 on the reliability and validity of the outcomes of the needs analysis. The methodology that has been followed while developing the questionnaire in this study has not been previously performed in English for specific purposes and English for academic purposes in the context of a needs analysis, which is the main contribution of this study. Three key stages were present in this longitudinal study: pre-pilot stage, pilot stage and main stage. For the content validity, eight experts, i.e., two lecturers from Educational Sciences, three lecturers from English Language Teaching, and three lecturers from the Medical School were used and for the face validity, eleven medical students participated with their feedback. 507 medical students participated in this study actively: 183 students took part in the pilot study, and 324 students participated in the main study. After factor analysis, the questionnaire developed in this study comprised 45 questions. The items in the questionnaire were collected according to the items factor loadings for the main study. Eight sub-scales were developed as study findings to investigate medical students needs and expectations regarding medical English: instructor qualifications, shortcomings, methods and strategies, affective domains, setting where English is used, problems during the medical English learning process, the importance of English and aims regarding language competence. Cronbachs alpha was performed for each scale to determine the internal consistency and the reliability of the questionnaire. The results ranged from 0.6820 to 0.8061.