Use of Medical English Corpus among Contemporary Chinese College Medical Students: A Needs-based Analysis

Abstract

The current research paper attempts to expose and analyze the general situation as well as what the needs of use of medical English corpus are among contemporary Chinese college medical students. At the same time, it makes efforts to uncover how to meet the needs for it. One hundred medical students took part in the research and they were asked to answer questionnaires purposefully designed, so as to collect comprehensive data with regard to the use of medical English corpus. The results of the current research has shown that there is a strong need of use of medical English corpus among contemporary Chinese college medical students as well as a severe lack of guidance of it from medical teachers in Chinese medical universities. Thus, this research further suggests that medical teachers should also guide medical students to meet the needs of selecting proper medical English corpus sensibly in their language learning practice. Keywords: medical English corpus, use, contemporary Chinese college medical students, needs analysis, language learning