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Direct linkWang, Jing; Liang, Shao-lan; Ge, Guang-chun – English for Specific Purposes, 2008
This paper reports a corpus-based lexical study of the most frequently used medical academic vocabulary in medical research articles (RAs). A Medical Academic Word List (MAWL), a word list of the most frequently used medical academic words in medical RAs, was compiled from a corpus containing 1 093 011 running words of medical RAs from online…
Descriptors: Medical Research, Word Lists, Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development
Download full textLutjeharms, Madeline – 1985
Techniques and approaches useful for developing reading comprehension and reading skills in second language learners are discussed and illustrated with examples from German. Literature is reviewed on: the effectiveness of reading while listening, transfer of skills and knowledge from one language to another, the role of guessing in reading…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Comparative Analysis, Context Clues, Dictionaries
