基础医学英语核心词表的筛选及应用

Screening and application of English core words in basic medicine

目的筛选基础医学学科里出现的核心医学英语词汇,以改进医学英语词汇的教学效果。方法研究于2014~2018年底自建约200万词的基础医学英语语料库,然后2019年1~5月采用定量与定性相结合的研究方法,同时辅助专业教师的辨别,筛选出基础医学核心词表和常用前后缀。结果共计筛选出1748个(实际为2357个未经还原的词汇)医学英语核心词汇,在整个语料库中的覆盖率为17.5%。结论基础医学核心词表的筛选不仅能够提高课堂词汇教学的针对性,而且在辅助教材编写、词典编撰、学习软件开发等方面,都有重要的研究价值。

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.