Nurse Education Today
Volume 31, Issue 4 , Pages 402-407 , May 2011

Nursing students coping with English as a foreign language medium of instruction

  • Wafika A. Suliman

      Affiliations

    • College of Nursing – Jeddah, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, National Guard Health Affairs (NGHA), Mail Code 6565, P.O. Box 9515, Jeddah 21423, Saudi Arabia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +966 2 6755370x29222, +966507488276(mobile); fax: +96626755370x29210.
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  • Angele Tadros

      Affiliations

    • Language and Cultural Studies Department, College of Nursing – Riyadh, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Saudi Arabia

,Accepted 30 July 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2010.07.014

Nurse Education Today
Volume 31, Issue 4 , Pages 402-407 , May 2011

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