Author(s)

Lei Wang, Guoting Yuan, He Ren

Corresponding Author

Lei Wang

Abstract

Behavioral medicine is a new and interdisciplinary subject, which integrates the knowledge of behavioral science and biomedical science. It has only been more than ten years since its emergence in China. However, with the progress of science and technology and the improvement of people's living standards, behavioral medicine has developed rapidly. How to provide a solid reserve of intellectuals for this subject and how to solve the special vocabulary used in behavioral medicine teaching are the problems we must think about. Corpus-based reform of ESP classroom teaching mode is the requirement of the reform and innovation of higher education in China, as well as the requirement of the Ministry of Education for the teaching of college English course. Advanced information technology should be widely used to promote computer-based and network-based English teaching, so as to provide students with a good language learning environment and conditions for specific practice. Because of its own characteristics, ESP (English for Specific Purposes) needs to be supported by corpus linguistics to carry out in-depth research. And ESP classification corpus will be constructed more comprehensively, more automated and more perfect due to the requirements of ESP researchers. ESP and corpus building interact and promote each other.

Keywords

Behavioral Medicine, English for Specific Purposes, ESP Corpus, Relations between ESP and Corpus