In Consumer Healthcare Informatics it is still difficult for laypersons to find, understand and act on health information, due to the persistent communication gap between specialized medical terminology and “lay” medical terminology used by healthcare consumers. Furthermore, existing clinically-oriented terminologies cannot provide sufficient support when integrated into consumeroriented applic...

Is word learning different in a second language? Clearly, we believe it is different in some ways. We would not have written this book if we thought otherwise. Research and theory about the vocabulary acquisition and instruction of native English speakers has been very influential in shaping the way we think about how to teach vocabulary to second-language learners, but research and theory on b...