An Analysis physicians' english language needs
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2016
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university of Oum-El-Bouaghi
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This study aimed at finding out the academic and professional english language needs of algerian rheumatologists. Both quantitative and qualitative research methods have been adopted to meet our objectives. The questionnaires were designed to know the perceptions of the rheumatologists about the use of english language in medical contexts in Algeria. Beside abstracts published by Algerian rheumatologists in Eular Journals were analysed using error analysis procedure to investigate the linguistic problems that physicians, and rheumatologists in particular, face when writing papers in english.
The results of the study indicate that Algerian rheumatologists need to improve their english reading skills. Moreover, the findings of the study reveal that common linguistic errors in the English abstracts written by rheumatologists.
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Professional english language