This book is written to fulfill students’ need to learn Foreign Language for Vocational Skills Training. This book is designed to provide opportunity for the students to develop their English skills more communicatively and meaningfully. It consists of eight units. It presents reading, speaking and writing practices. Reading practice consists of reading comprehension and vocabulary exercises related to the topic of the text. In writing practice, some structures and sentence patterns are completed with guided writing exercise. Meanwhile, in speaking practice students are provided with model and example which are presented in various ways. The material has been arranged and graded in accordance with their language levels.

The book entitled “English for Nursing Assistant: Supple-mentary E-Learning-based Materials” was developed based on primary needs of Nursing Department students of Vocational High Schools that will become a Nurse Assistant after they graduated from the institution. There are some steps that have been conducted by the authors to gather data which become main resources in developing this book. After the analysis of the students’ needs, important themes were developed in each unit for the book. The themes include General Assessment, Handling Patients, Patient’s Hygiene, Checking Vital Sign, and Dimens-ions of Symptom. This book contains examples of English ex-pressions which are very useful for the students to practice and master before they go for the real world job later. There are also some practical activities that will train students to develop their language skills of Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening. The main feature of the book includes the utilization of e-learning features and strategies for learning more effectively. The e-learning platform consists of primarily listening materials to support the teaching and learning process. The students can go to the set up e-learning platform to listen to audio materials to complete exercises provided in the book. It is expected that they the use of ICT will provide the utmost benefits for the students learning a specific area, like Nursing using English as the medium of instruction.

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