Abstract:Objective To screen a core medical English vocabulary in basic medical subject and improve teaching effect of medical English vocabulary. Methods A basic medical English corpus of about 2 million words was built from the end of 2014 till the end of 2018 and a core medical word list was screened out by using both quantitative and qualitative research methods and consulting professional teachers from January to May 2019. Results A total of 1748 (actually 2357 unreduced vocabulary) word families were screened as the core medical word list, which had a coverage of 17.5% in the entire corpus. Conclusion The screening of the core medical word list in basic sciences of medicine can not only improve the pertinence of classroom vocabulary teaching, but also has important research value in the aspects of textbook writing, dictionary compilation and learning software development.
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