A corpus-based list of commonly used English medical morphemes for students learning English for specific purposes

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dc.contributor.authorLe, C.N.N.
dc.contributor.authorMiller, J.
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractMedical 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.
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityChinh Ngan Nguyen Le, Julia Miller
dc.identifier.citationEnglish for Specific Purposes, 2020; 58:102-121
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.esp.2020.01.004
dc.identifier.issn0889-4906
dc.identifier.issn1873-1937
dc.identifier.orcidMiller, J. [0000-0002-8706-1695]
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2440/123601
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.rights© 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
dc.source.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.esp.2020.01.004
dc.subjectMedical terminology; Corpus; Morpheme
dc.titleA corpus-based list of commonly used English medical morphemes for students learning English for specific purposes
dc.typeJournal article
pubs.publication-statusPublished

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