Specialized vocabulary across languages: The case of traditional Chinese medicine

This paper reports on the creation of specialized word lists in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), which is a discipline using vocabulary across languages (i.e., and English) involves learners with different L1 backgrounds. First, TCM Word List 2,778 words was established from corpora textbooks journal articles. Selection criteria included meaning, keyness corpus general written English compared to Corpora, frequency. The resulting list covered 36.65% Corpora but had low coverage over medical English. then divided into three sub-lists based frequency, graded levels. Level 1 contains high-frequency lexical items (e.g., organ, coating); 2 that are mid-, low-frequency, or beyond any frequency levels pericarpium, metabolism); 3 loan qi, yang). Last, there an overlap 309 families between this earlier by Hsu (2018), excludes 1st-3rd 1,000 Suggestions for teachers future research provided.