Book to teach English for specific purposes (ESP) to students from the Applied Linguistics School who work as translators in the ECUADENT program in Esmeraldas

Abstract

With the aim of designing a book for the teaching of English for Specific Purposes for the students from the Applied Linguistics School at PUCE Esmeraldas who work as translators in the ECUADENT program, a mixed investigation, quantitative and qualitative was carried out with the analytical-synthetical and hermeneutic methods and the techniques of survey and test, which were applied to a sample of 13 students of 5th and 8th level from the Applied Linguistics School who have participated in the referred program. The results showed students’ lack of knowledge about communicative functions which are essential for the doctor-patient, doctor-nurse, doctor-relative interaction and also lack of medical lexicon in English which allows having communication and appropriate translation in the health care. Besides, the lack of a book to use as a didactic material for the training of the students was revealed. The diagnosis allowed the design of a book to teach English for Medical and Dental Purposes for the program referred which has six didactic units with related contents to maxillofacial plastic surgery and odontology.