2. The Present Study
2.1. Participants
Table: The distribution of the participants by sex, degree, field of study, and language
proficiency
Isfahan
University of
Medical
Sciences
Population:
Total
number
in each
class
Ph.D BSc Assoc.
degree
Mean of
proficiency
test
SD Student
s with
+_one
SD
Male Female
Medicine 17 * 28.82 6.47 14 5 9
Dentistry 17 * 28.18 5.07 13 0 13
Pharmacy 21 * 25.43 4.63 16 0 16
Midwifery 14 * 20.07 6.07 11 0 11
Nursing 17 * 21.24 4.20 13 3 10
Physiotherapy 15 * 23.47 6.09 9 2 7 43
Management
and health care
services
15 * 20.33 5.91 11 2 9
Medical
records
21 * 18.24 4.61 15 0 16
Total 137 103 12 91
* =have Ph.D, BSs or Associate degrees
The participants were selected randomly from among undergraduate medical and
paramedical students (n=137) who had enrolled in ESP I in Isfahan University of
Medical Sciences. A standardized language proficiency test (Intermediate TOEFL
Test Practices by Keith S. Folse 1994) was given to them in each field (i.e. medicine,
pharmacy, dentistry, midwifery, nursing, physiotherapy, health services management
and medical records) and those whose scores fell