Teaching Latin in International Student Groups: Comparative Study
Roč.5,č.2(2016)
Latin is an old language, but its importance in the field in medicine is still prevalent. When teaching the terminology of medical Latin to the international students’ groups at Riga Stradiņš University in Latvia, the lecturers encounter certain problems in the teaching of the course due to the grammatical complexity of the Latin terminology and students’ understanding/explanation of the terms in their national languages. The current study was aimed at undertaking a comparative study for identifying the most common difficulties encountered in the study process by international students and local Latvian students.
Students’ final or/and interim tests were used to analyse the most common mistakes. Some general statistics from our university were also helpful in our work. In order to sort out the most common mistakes, we used both qualitative and quantitative methods to see the frequency of the mistakes mentioned above.
Latin medical terminology; students’ motivation; comparative study
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