title: The impact of simulation-based learning on students' English for Nursing Purposes (ENP) reading proficiency: a quasi-experimental study.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This is a report of a study which evaluated simulation-based learning as a teaching strategy for improving participants' ENP reading proficiency in the senior college program of students whose first language is Chinese, not English.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Simulation-based learning is known to be one of most effective teaching strategies in the healthcare professional curricula, which brings a clinical setting into the classroom. However, developing English reading skills for English written nursing journals through simulation-based learning in the nursing curricula, is largely unknown.
  
  
  METHODS
  We used a quasi-experimental approach with nonequivalent control group design to collect the causal connections between intervention and outcomes. 101 students were enrolled in this study (response rate 92.6%) of these 48 students volunteered for the intervention group, and 53 students for the control group.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The findings indicated that the intervention group had significantly higher mean scores in ENP reading proficiency with unknown words in the article (p=.004), vocabulary (p<.001), and comprehension (p<.001) compared to the control group. Also, the intervention students showed more improvement in their English reading, both from quantitative and qualitative findings.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Simulation-based learning may have some advantages in improving the English reading ability on English written nursing journals among nursing students. However, the benefits to the students of this study is still to be determined, and further exploration is needed with well designed research and a universal method of outcome measurement.
authors: School of Nursing, Fooyin University, Taiwan. chang@gmail.com
authors: Hsiao-Yun Annie
authors: HY
authors: Chang
authors: Luke
authors: L
authors: Chan
authors: Betty
authors: B
authors: Siren
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D032882:Comprehension; D003479:Curriculum; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008348:Manikins; D019303:Multilingualism; D065228:Non-Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D011932:Reading; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013624:Taiwan; D055815:Young Adult