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7
Letras' students were not included in this research
because at the time this research was carried out their
had distinct purposes from those in EL I Course.
course
Complete references of all
the texts applied to the
Nursing and Physics Groups could not be provided by the Department
of Modern Foreign
Languages.
7
An EL I group of students is usually formed by
of different groups in other disciplines; one student, for
students
instance, can have X and Y as classmates in his EL I Course but
different classmates in his, say, Pathology Course. Students are
offered a certain number of disciplines each semester;
they
usually take those which are pre-requisites to other disciplines
or those which fit best their own conveniences. Thus, an EL I
group of students may or may not be having all the disciplines
offered at that semester. Moreover, at the Medical School the
offer of some disciplines to Nursing students does not take
place in the same semester as they are offered to Medical
students. It seems to us that this administrative aspect should
be helpful as to the selection of future texts to be studied
either by Nursing Groups or by Medical
students.
4 The favourable aspect of the inclusion of texts which
were not directly linked to the major area of those students in
that group was that we were able to observe
their reaction to
the application of texts numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4; they claimed
that they would prefer to deal with texts just like numbers
7, 8, 9, 10 and 12.
5 In texts numbers 7, 8, 9, 10 and 12, twenty-seven wbt
errors and fifteen i rg errors were made. Except for text 4 in
which they made the highest number of wbt and i rg errors -
twenty-eight altogether- it was in text 8 that they made the
second highest number of wbt and i rg errors: eleven wbt errors
and six irg errors; seventeen errors of both types.