قراءات
Volume 14, Numéro 1, Pages 1007-1020
2022-12-15

Students’ Perception About The Implementation Of Medical Discourse In Efl Classes During The Covid-19 Pandemic. The Case Of First Year Students At Mohamed Khider University

Authors : Benzida Yasmina . Chelli Saliha .

Abstract

The outbreak of COVID-19 has brought with it new knowledge of vocabulary; terms related to the virus. The present study attempted to introduce medical discourse to EFL learners to enhance their lexical competence at Biskra University. For this purpose, 20 participants were used in a qualitative study in which we took the preliminary results obtained from the questionnaire. The results emphasized that teaching medical terms have given students better opportunities to grasp more vocabulary and use them when communicating in different topics and succeed in their social interaction as well. It also rises their awareness about the pandemic, vaccination, especially during and post the COVID-19 era.

Keywords

Medical discourse; ; lexical competence; ; EFL learners; ; COVID-19.