OBJECTIVE STRUCTURED PRACTICAL EXAMINATION ON DISCIPLINE “UKRAINIAN LANGUAGE AS FOREIGN LANGUAGE” AS TOOL TO ASSESS COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCIES OF INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL SDTUDENTS

critical period effects in foreign language learning:the influence of maturational state on the acquisition of reading,writing, and grammar in english as a foreign language

since the 1960s the age effects on learning both first and second language have been explored by many linguists and applied linguists (e.g lennerberg, 1967; schachter, 1996; long, 1990) and the existence of critical period for language acquisition was found to be a common ground of all these studies. in spite of some common findings, some issues about the impacts of age on acquiring a second or...

A study on objective structured practical examination ( OSPE ) as a tool for assessment of medical students

Background: Most of the medical colleges in India follow the Conventional Practical Examination (CPE) system for evaluation of practical or clinical skills. This method has several flaws such as inter-examiner marks variation, favouritism, varying difficulty level of different experiments etc. which prevents uniform marking. Objective Structured Practical Examination (OSPE), conceptualised by H...

Grammatical Error Correction of English as Foreign Language Learners

This study aimed to discover the insight of error correction by implementing two correction systems on three Iranian university students. The three students were invited to write four in-class essays throughout the semester, in which their verb errors and individual-selected errors were corrected using the Code Correction System and the Individual Correction System. At the end of the study, the...

How to Teach The Suprasegmentals of English To Farsi-speakers Learning English as a Foreign Language

Objective structured practical examination in pharmacology for medical laboratory technicians.

The objective structured practical examination (OSPE) is a useful evaluation method for testing psychomotor skills. Students for the degree in medical laboratory technology require to learn certain skills which will make them useful in any research or teaching laboratory in experimental pharmacology. We outline an OSPE which can be used for evaluating students in experimental pharmacology.