Description
Vocabulary knowledge is a strong predictor of reading proficiency (Dong, 2020), and morphological knowledge, including affixes, is particularly critical in English for the pharmaceutical sciences because a significant portion of medical terminology is derived from Greek and Latin, especially because their L1 is Japanese, which poses a handicap to mastering medical terminology because many terms are derived from Greek and Latin (Horst, Cobb, & Nicolae, 2005).
Primary author
Julia Kimura
(Mukogawa Women's University)
