STRATEGIES AND APPROACHES FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING OF MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY

Abstract

Teaching / learning of medical terminology is an acute problem for both teachers and learners of medical discipline. The present research paper investigates the difficulties encounter the learners of medicine in understanding medical terminology. It provides some strategies for the learners such as breaking down strategy , identifying the word – parts .  The  most appropriate  and  efficient  approaches  which  may  help  in  the  teaching  process  of  medical terminology are suggested such as diagnostic approach , a generative model for acquisition of medical vocabularies , using L1 in teaching L2 and other collective methods .