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标题：Teaching psychology through English: Incidental improvement in academic reading comprehension
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作者：Graham Pluck
期刊名称：Journal of Educational Sciences & Psychology
印刷版ISSN：2247-6377
电子版ISSN：2247-8558
出版年度：2013
卷号：3
期号：1
页码：38-42
语种：English
出版社：Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti
摘要：Teaching academic material through English as a foreign language presents additional challenges for the students,but also additional benefits.I report on a module of medical psychology taught in English to Ecuadorian university students whose first language is Spanish.Comparisons of pre and post module reading comprehension scores showed that there was large and statistically significant improvement in reading comprehension.However,ratings of confidence in comprehension remained unchanged.The improvement in scores represents an example of incidental learning,as the module was focused entirely on content and did not include any teaching of English as a foreign language.I conclude that teaching with only academic journal articles is possible.In addition,incidental improvements in reading comprehension may present additional benefits of this approach.
关键词：English teaching;psychology teaching;incidental learning;Spanish;comprehension