Evaluating the Effectiveness of ESP Courses in the Medical Sciences Department at Abs Community College (ACC)

الملخص

This study tries to evaluate the effectiveness of the two ESP courses of medical sciences department taught at Abs Community College (ACC) in Yemen. A sample of 145 students was selected from the population to participate in this study. The participants were asked to respond to a 35-statement questionnaire, adapted in Salehi et al (2015) and Aldaihani et al (2015), to obtain information on their evaluation of the two ESP courses in developing their proficiency in the four English skills and express their attitudes towards the content, exercises and topics of these two courses. The findings of the study revealed that the two ESP courses are effective and  helpful in improving the students' proficiency in the four English skills with remarkable emphasis on reading. The results also showed that the content, activities and the topics of the two ESP courses match the needs of the medical sciences students. A few deficiencies were revealed in some sub-skills of writing and oral performance. Therefore, the ESP courses requires modification in the content to help students achieve their objectives. The results of the study have also some significant implications for students, teachers and syllabus designers.