Embedding international benchmarks of proficiency in english in undergraduate nursing programmes: Challenges and strategies in equipping culturally and linguistically diverse students with english as an additional language for nursing in australia

Collegian

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 101-108

  Glew, Paul J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Diversity; English skills; Interventions; Registration standard; Undergraduate

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CURRICULUM; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LICENSING; MIGRATION; NURSING EDUCATION; QUALITY CONTROL; STANDARD;

AUSTRALIA; BENCHMARKING; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, NURSING; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; HUMANS; LICENSURE, NURSING; MULTILINGUALISM;

EID: 84877593558     PISSN: 13227696     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.colegn.2012.04.002     Document Type: Article

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