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TeachingofVocabularytoMedicalStudentsinESPCourses

LangLit 
An International Peer-Reviewed Open Access Journal
 
 
Vol. 1 Issue - 1
 
 
80
 
 
 
Aug, 2014 
He was ill and unfortunately his condition began to ........ . 
When explaining the meaning of unknown vocabulary the teacher must signalize 
whether the term is colloquial or medical (specialized). There is a type of exercise in which 
the students are asked to provide a medical term (usually of Greek or Latin origin) for a 
given colloquial one. To make this exercise easier, the clues may be provided in the form of 
dashes given for letters and additionally one or two letters, e.g., 
knee cap 
 - _ _ tl _ _ _ _ (patella) 
collar bone 
 - _ _ _ v _ _ _ _ (clavicle) 
pass water 
 - u _ _ n _ _ _ (urinate) 
A potential source of confusion are homophones, that is, words in English which have 
the same pronunciation but are spelt differently and have different meaning, e.g., heal and 
heelhoarse and horse. Students must be aware of the fact there are medical words which can 
easily be mistaken with their homophones. The exercise that enables them to distinguish 
between two homophones is the one in which the students are asked to choose the 
appropriate word from the given pairs, e.g., 
The wound has been very slow to heel / heal
He has pharyngitis and that’s why his voice is hoarse / horse. 
The more such pairs the student will recognize, the fewer chances of producing sentences 
having an unintended comical effect. 
In learning medical vocabulary, it is very important to know how suffixes and 
prefixes work. A useful exercise showing their function is to ask the students to match 
prefixes and suffixes with parts of the body they pertain to and then to give definitions of the 
new terms containing these affixes, e.g., 
rhino - nose Rhinitis is an inflammation of the mucous membrane in the nose. 
 
algia - pain Myalgia is pain in the muscles caused by their overuse or stretching. 
A type of exercise which combines the knowledge of lexis, affixes (prefixex and 
suffixes) and grammar of the word is so called “word building’. The students’ task is to make 
a suitable form derived from a given word to fill the blank in the sentence, e.g., 
An operation has been ordered for the _______ of a tumour. EXCISE 
A variant of a word building or a word derivation exercise is an exercise in which the 
students complete grids or “spidergrams” of word families which show the derived parts of 
speech (a verb, a noun and an adjective), e.g., 
verb 
noun 
adjective 
diagnose 
diagnosis 
diagnostic 
treat 
treatment 
treatable/untreatable 
operate
operation 
operative, 
operable/inoperable 
As a follow-up activity, the students may be asked to fill in the slots in sentences with 
an appropriate word chosen from the completed grid: 
She cannot be operated because the tumour turned out to be __________ . 
Solving crossword puzzles is a very attractive activity for revising vocabulary, in 
which the students are given the meaning of medical words and their task is to provide these 
words. There are several online programmes (e.g., Hot Potatoes) with the help of which 



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