The Application of Corpus-based Teaching Approach to Medical English Vocabulary  

作　　者：张瑞君[1] 王连柱[1] 王兰英[1] 

机构地区：[1]新乡医学院外语系

出　　处：《科技信息》2009年第18期89-90,共2页Science & Technology Information

基　　金：2007年河南省教育厅立项,新乡医学院科技处资助课题的相关研究论文课题名称"语料库及检索工具在医学英语教学实践中的应用研究",课题立项编号为:2007-ZX-138,新乡医学院资助课题编号为:2007YJA58

摘　　要：Insufficient vocabulary has become a barrier to reading comprehension and translation in the process of ME (medical English) study to the third-year students at medical universities or colleges. The current study was designed to investigate corpus-based teaching ap-proach to enlarging students'vocabulary in the course of higher learning of ML (medical literature). The study was carried out from 2006.9 to 2008.9 among third-year medical students in our college. Students were encouraged to augment their vocabulary by active practice,intensive learning,and comprehensive learning respectively through discovering study by using self-made ME corpuses (90,000 words). In doing so,their vocabulary was enlarged by actively using the essential vocabulary,attaching more attention to the difficult technical vocabulary,and getting familiar with medical terms,which eliminated their language barrier,improved their integrated language proficiency,and developed their sense of achievement.Insufficient vocabulary has become a barrier to reading comprehension and translation in the process of ME （medical English） study to the third-year students at medical universities or colleges. The current study was designed to investigate corpus- based teaching approach to enlarging students＇vocabulary in the course of higher learning of ML （medical literature）. The study was carried out from 2006.9 to 2008.9 among third -year medical students in our college. Students were encouraged to augment their vocabulary by active practice, intensive learning, and comprehensive learning respectively through discovering study by using self-made ME corpuses （90,000 words）. In doing so, their vocabulary was enlarged by actively using the essential vocabulary, attaching more attention to the difficult technical vocabulary, and getting familiar with medical terms, which eliminated their language barrier, improved their integrated language proficiency, and developed their sense of achievement.

关 键 词：医学英语 词汇 学习方法 翻译方法 

分 类 号：H31[语言文字—英语]