German dentistry language in third language acquisitions aspect
Abstract
The Department for Medical Communication and Translation Studies of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Szeged has been offering English and German language courses for medical and dentistry students. Last years’ experiences have shown that most of the students who enrolled in the German for Medical Purposes course learnt dominantly English as their first foreign language. Most of them learnt German as their second foreign language in primary or secondary school. The main aim of the paper is to present how the students’ language background can affect their language learning for special purposes, particularly how their English knowledge bears influence on it. The first part of the paper summarizes the language background of the students participating in the Medical German course in the first semester of the academic year 2019/2020. The data is comprised from responses to questionnaires disseminated to the students. The analysis of the questionnaires reveals the student’s language biography, from which we can ascertain their first foreign language, how many languages they speak, where they learnt the languages. The second part of the study focuses on the students’ written papers and investigates the students’ lexical mistakes. An attempt is also made to explain the reasons for typical mistakes.
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