Language Center Faculty of Humanities, An-Najah National University, Nablus, State of Palestine.
Biomed Res Int. 2022 Jul 27;2022:8999025. doi: 10.1155/2022/8999025. eCollection 2022.
This mixed method study explores medical students' perceptions and attitudes regarding the language(s) of medical instruction in two Palestinian universities. The researcher aimed to identify the way medical students look at the language of medical education as well as the merits and drawbacks of the language(s) used in medical instruction. A 25-item descriptive, online questionnaire was built to explore the way university students evaluate and perceive the medium of medical instruction at the Faculty of Medicine. To complement and inform the quantitative findings, fifty-five students from each university were randomly selected, and their responses to an open question about the merits and drawbacks of the language(s) were analyzed using MAXQDA. Of the too many medical students enrolled in the two universities, 604 completed and returned the survey, and 55 students were selected to interpret their open responses qualitatively. The study findings suggest that the students are divided into two camps concerning what the language of medical instruction should be; some prefer Arabic, their mother tongue, while the others showed no reservations about using the medical academic vocabulary in English. Some statistically significant differences were found when some demographic variables, i.e., gender, specific major, and year of study, interact. Finally, study respondents highlighted several issues which the researcher sorted into advantages and disadvantages for each language. There is a considerable discrepancy in the choice of the language of medical instruction at the Faculty of Medicine. Each language has its pros and cons; consequently, a mixture of a mother and a foreign language (e.g., English) could be a suitable compromise in a country like Palestine.
本混合方法研究探讨了两所巴勒斯坦大学医学生对医学教学语言的看法和态度。研究人员旨在确定医学生如何看待医学教育的语言，以及医学教学中使用的语言的优点和缺点。研究人员构建了一个 25 项描述性的在线问卷，以探讨医学生对医学教学媒介的评价和看法。为了补充和告知定量研究结果，从每所大学随机选择了 55 名学生，对他们关于语言（母语和外语）的优缺点的开放式问题的回答进行了 MAXQDA 分析。在两所大学注册的众多医学生中，有 604 名学生完成并返回了调查，从中选择了 55 名学生对其开放式回答进行定性解释。研究结果表明，学生们在医学教学语言应该是什么的问题上存在分歧；一些人更喜欢母语阿拉伯语，而另一些人则对使用英语的医学学术词汇没有任何保留。当一些人口统计学变量（如性别、特定专业和学习年限）相互作用时，发现了一些具有统计学意义的差异。最后，研究受访者强调了一些问题，研究人员将这些问题分为每种语言的优缺点。医学系的医学教学语言选择存在相当大的差异。每种语言都有其优点和缺点；因此，在像巴勒斯坦这样的国家，母语和外语（如英语）的混合可能是一种合适的妥协。
