ESP for future healthcare professionals: The development and application of specialized wordlists through genre analysis

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24520673
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Foreign language education
• Research Institution: Kyoto College of Medical Science
• Principal Investigator: FUJIEDA Miho 京都医療科学大学, 公私立大学の部局等, 教授 (20328173)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): SUZUKI Hiroko 東海大学, 教育研究所, 教授 (50191789)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: ESP / 医学英語 / コーパス / 語彙リスト / ジャンル分析 / 診療放射線技師

Outline of Final Research Achievements

As the foundation for a departmental ESP (English for Specific Purposes) curriculum and materials development, this study established preliminary English wordlists for students of radiological sciences. Considering the students'progress of study in the college, three specialized corpora were compiled from sources targeting audiences with different levels of specialized knowledge: (1) patient education materials (PE), (2) introductory university textbooks (TB), and (3) research articles (RA). From each corpus, key words were extracted based on frequency, range, and keyness statistic. This resulted in the three lists of 308, 342, and 370 word families, with text coverages of 12.0%, 12.7%, and 15.4% respectively.

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英語教育