Enhancing the writing competence in the Medicine classroom with online tools:: Bombay TV

• Lucía Bellés-Calvera ^[1] ; Begoña Bellés-Fortuño ^[1]
  1. [1] Universitat Jaume I

     Universitat Jaume I

     Castellón, España

     
• Localización: Edunovatic 2017. Conference proceedings: 2nd Virtual International Conference on Education, Innovation and ICT. 12 - 14 December, 2017 / coord. por Alfredo Pina Calafi, Marta Soler, Antonio José Meneses Osório, Consuelo García de la Torre, Mari Carmen Caldeiro Pedreira, Pilar Uribe Sepúlveda, Cesar Martín Agurto Castillo; Roberta Dall Agnese da Costa (aut.), 2018, ISBN 978-94-92805-02-7, págs. 280-286
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The aim of this study is to analyze the writing errors made by first-year undergraduate Medicine students in the English classroom at a Spanish university. Forty-nine subjects enrolled in the English for Health Sciences module were expected to subtitle short videos not only implementing medical vocabulary seen in previous lessons, but also using Open Educational Resources (OERs), more specifically Bombay TV. This online tool allows learners to practise and develop their writing skills in the target language as well as their autonomy and creativity. Results showed that the most frequently committed errors were, in order, punctuation, spelling wrong verb choice, wrong word choice, pronouns, fragment, word order, articles, verb tense, subject-verb agreement, nouns, prepositions, capitalization and adjectives respectively. Moreover, the negative transfer of students’ first language (L1) occasionally resulted in a lack of grammar and vocabulary accuracy that should be taken into account in order to enhance students’ writing competence in the target language. A final questionnaire revealed that the use of new technologies in the foreign language classroom triggered students’ motivation.