Motives For Teaching English Medical Terminology

Abstract

Teachers of English as a second or foreign language face a difficult task when teaching English to medical
students. Furthermore, both teachers and students encounter significant challenges in teaching and
understanding medical terminology. Teachers struggle to express concepts camouflaged in terminology from
languages other than English, such as Greek and Latin, which are part of the Indo-European and Romance
language families. As a result, children are frightened by lengthy and intricate terminology, and they fail to
speak, spell, and comprehend foreign words. The current study paper investigates the difficulties that medical
students have in understanding medical terminology. It gives children a variety of learning methodologies