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Objective: the construction and application of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) English corpus is the new trend of TCM English research and development. The establishment and development of TCM bilingual corpus is conducive to ESP teaching, the formation of unified standards and norms of TCM English, the provision of reference standards and basis for TCM English translation, and ultimately the rapid development of TCM English subject, and the internationalization of TCM Service. Methods: the corpus used in this study is from the Chinese-English version of “Jingui Yaolue” (Synopsis of the Golden Chamber) translated by Li Zhaoguo and Liu Xiru, and the self translated version of “Tang Tou Ge Jue” (Decoctions in Rhymes). The research on English corpus of Traditional Chinese medicine based on corpus linguistics is briefly summarized, and the role and significance of the construction of English corpus of TCM prescriptions for English writing of traditional Chinese medicine are analyzed and expounded. The junior students (n = 80) of a college of TCM were randomly divided into two groups: experimental group (n = 40) and control group (n = 40). The experimental group used bilingual corpus of prescription terms as the driving force in the process of writing TCM English. The control group adopted the conventional writing mode, that is, the teacher explained the Chinese medicine vocabulary that may be involved in the writing process firstly, and then the students reviewed and wrote. In this study, a self-designed ESP writing ability scale of TCM was used to measure the writing ability of the experimental group and the control group. Results: in the five dimensions of word accuracy, sentence structure, text structure, writing efficacy and writing motivation, the post test of the experimental group and the control group were significantly better than the pre test (p < 0.05); in the post test, the performance of the experimental group was significantly better than the control group (p < 0.01). In the two dimensions of grammatical accuracy and content innovation, the post test scores of the experimental group and the control group were significantly higher than the pre test (p < 0.05), but in the post test, there was no significant difference between the experimental group and the control group (p > 0.05). Conclusion: the traditional teaching method of foreign language is mainly based on the rules taught by teachers, while the data-driven ESP teaching method, from the perspective of language acquisition, focuses on students, provides students with a language environment, enables students to discover language rules from the corpus, and greatly enhances students’ autonomous learning ability.
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This research was supported by 2019 Jilin Social Science Fund Project: Jilin Province Traditional Chinese medicine cultural identity survey and Promotion Path Research (Grant No. 2019B89), 2018 Changchun University of Chinese medicine Cultivation Fund Project (Grant No. 2018SK04), Training Project for Young and Middle- aged Backbone Teachers in Changchun University of Chinese Medicine, “13th Five-year” Social Science Project of Education department in Jilin Province 2018: A Study on the System and Mechanism of Ideological and Political Education for College Students Led by Socialist Core Values, “Apricot Woods Scholar Project” 2019 – Young Scientist Project in Changchun University of Chinese Medicine.
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Su, Z., Lian, S., Wei, X., Shang, Y. (2020). Influence of Chinese English Bilingual Corpus of Traditional Chinese Medicine Prescriptions on ESP Writing Under the Background of Big Data. In: Xu, Z., Parizi, R., Hammoudeh, M., Loyola-González, O. (eds) Cyber Security Intelligence and Analytics. CSIA 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1146. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43306-2_93
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