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were not included In the ones which form the corpus of our
research.
Besides the common nervousness which students usually
show during the period in which they are overloaded by monthly
examinations of other subjects, the rhythm of the classes was
always normal, and students' interest in their EL I Course
activities may be considered as
satisfactory.
The Nursing Group managed to translate 14 specific
texts while the Physics Group translated 12 specific ones. Before
applying the specific texts both groups translated two non-specific
-texts so that the results obtained from the translation
of the
ngps in the latter might be compared with the results
obtained
from the
former.
Although the specific texts for the Nursing Group were
different in content and in vocabulary from the ones for the
Physics Group, we assumed that the students' knowledge of the
subjects discussed in the specific ones would compensate for
some
probable linguistic difficulty so that a comparison between the
results obtained from specific and non-specific
texts could be
made by means of statistical tests to reveal the degree of some
possible discrepancies between the individual performance of
Nursing students and Physics ones.
Texts to be studied in EL I Course are established by
the DLEM (Department of Modern Foreign Languages) which
also
provides the copies to be distributed to students. The application
of non-specific texts before the specific ones is considered as
a means of introducing students to the procedures which
characterize EL I Course classes, namely, the reading of fairly