Bridging the vocabulary gap for EFL medical undergraduates: The establishment of a medical word list
Bridging the vocabulary gap for EFL medical undergraduates: The establishment of a medical word list
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DOI：
10.1177/1362168813494121
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发表时间：
2013-10-01
影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
Hsu, Wenhua
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作者：
Hsu, Wenhua
本研究创建了一个医学词汇表（MWL），以弥合非技术词汇和技术词汇之间的差距。研究人员从电子书数据库中汇编了一个包含31个医学学科领域155本教科书的语料库（总计1500万个运行单词），并检查了英国国家语料库中最常见的3,000个单词家族沿着的单词的范围和频率。为了达到98%的词汇覆盖率以充分理解医学文本，最终选择了语料库中最频繁出现的595个词族并形成MWL，这些词族占所研究的医学教科书中的10.72%。除了希腊/拉丁语来源的高度专业化的医学术语外，MWL还包含各种子技术和非专业技术词汇表。建议医学教师可借助免费的在线检索工具，将检索数据融入教材，提高学生对本研究中常用医学词汇的认识，从而巩固从MWL中获得的词汇知识。对于医学新手来说，目前的MWL提供了一个窗口，让他们了解医学注册。
This study created a medical word list (MWL) to bridge the gap between non-technical and technical vocabulary. The researcher compiled a corpus containing 155 textbooks across 31 medical subject areas from e-book databases (totaling 15 million running words) and examined the range and frequency of words outside the most frequent 3,000-word families along the British National Corpus scale. To reach 98% lexical coverage for adequate comprehension of medical texts, 595 of the most frequently-occurring word families in the corpus were ultimately chosen and formed the MWL, and these accounted for 10.72% of the tokens in the medical textbooks under study. Excluding highly-specialized medical terms of Greek/Latin sources, the MWL encompasses various sub-technical and lay-technical vocabularies. It is suggested that with the help of free online concordancers, medical teachers can raise their students' awareness of the commonly-used medical words reported in this study by incorporating concordance data into teaching materials, thereby consolidating the vocabulary knowledge acquired from the MWL. For medical novices, the present MWL provides a window to the medical register.