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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | A corpus-based list of commonly used English medical morphemes for students learning English for specific purposes |
Author: | Le, C.N.N. Miller, J. |
Citation: | English for Specific Purposes, 2020; 58:102-121 |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Issue Date: | 2020 |
ISSN: | 0889-4906 1873-1937 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Chinh Ngan Nguyen Le, Julia Miller |
Abstract: | Medical students with English as an additional language often face difficulties in acquiring English medical terminology derived from Greek and Latin morphemes. To address this problem, this study used a corpus-based approach to identify the most commonly occurring medical morphemes in four sources: Stedman's list of medical morphemes; the Cengage list of general English morphemes; the Center for Development in Learning list of general English morphemes; and the Medical Web Corpus—a web-based corpus of current medical texts available through Sketch Engine text analysis software. Three medical dictionaries were used to validate the findings, leading to a final list of 136 specialized medical morphemes which cover 8.5% of the lexical items in the Medical Web Corpus. The findings provide a reliable and useful resource to help medical students with English as an additional language enhance their English medical vocabulary. |
Keywords: | Medical terminology; Corpus; Morpheme |
Rights: | © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.esp.2020.01.004 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.esp.2020.01.004 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 8 Education publications |
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