Gamification exercises as motivation means to learn Latin at a medical university

Abstract

The article is devoted to the issues of increasing the motivation of students to study the discipline «The Latin language» at a medical university through gamified tasks integration into the e-learning course. These tasks allow students to maintain interest in the discipline, ensure the regularity of independent work of students and allow them to monitor the implementation of tasks. The subject of the study is the gamified exercises in the discipline «The Latin language». The object of the study is the process of creating gamified tasks for organizing both classroom and extracurricular independent work and integrating these tasks into the electronic course. The theoretical significance is to describe one of the methods for increasing motivation in the creation of gamified tasks’ system on LMS Moodle platform and integrating it into the e-learning course. The practical significance of the work is to create the electronic course in the dicipline «The Latin language» with gamified practical tasks for students to increase motivation for learning the language. As a result of this work, we can see that students were motivated to study Latin, the gamified tasks were created and implemented in the electronic course on LMS Moodle platform, the course was tested with the participation of a focus group of the 1st year students. The authors of the article proved that with the help of gamification students increase their interest in acquiring new and correcting previous acquired knowledge in the discipline, creating a spirit of healthy competition, developing students’ ability to make independent decisions, developing their personal self-control and self-evaluation skills.