Influence of Chinese English Bilingual Corpus of Traditional Chinese Medicine Prescriptions on ESP Writing Under the Background of Big Data

Abstract

Objective: the construction and application of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) English corpus is the new trend of TCM English research and development. The establishment and development of TCM bilingual corpus is conducive to ESP teaching, the formation of unified standards and norms of TCM English, the provision of reference standards and basis for TCM English translation, and ultimately the rapid development of TCM English subject, and the internationalization of TCM Service. Methods: the corpus used in this study is from the Chinese-English version of “Jingui Yaolue” (Synopsis of the Golden Chamber) translated by Li Zhaoguo and Liu Xiru, and the self translated version of “Tang Tou Ge Jue” (Decoctions in Rhymes). The research on English corpus of Traditional Chinese medicine based on corpus linguistics is briefly summarized, and the role and significance of the construction of English corpus of TCM prescriptions for English writing of traditional Chinese medicine are analyzed and expounded. The junior students (n = 80) of a college of TCM were randomly divided into two groups: experimental group (n = 40) and control group (n = 40). The experimental group used bilingual corpus of prescription terms as the driving force in the process of writing TCM English. The control group adopted the conventional writing mode, that is, the teacher explained the Chinese medicine vocabulary that may be involved in the writing process firstly, and then the students reviewed and wrote. In this study, a self-designed ESP writing ability scale of TCM was used to measure the writing ability of the experimental group and the control group. Results: in the five dimensions of word accuracy, sentence structure, text structure, writing efficacy and writing motivation, the post test of the experimental group and the control group were significantly better than the pre test (p 0.05). Conclusion: the traditional teaching method of foreign language is mainly based on the rules taught by teachers, while the data-driven ESP teaching method, from the perspective of language acquisition, focuses on students, provides students with a language environment, enables students to discover language rules from the corpus, and greatly enhances students’ autonomous learning ability.