Abstract
This study explored frequently used English vocabulary by adopting a corpus approach for the purpose of developing lists of words and expressions for English conversation. English word lists or practical English expressions, some of which are corpus-based, are available in some books for medical science students, however, there are few corpus-based textbooks available for veterinary nursing students. Compiling a ‘Veterinary Nursing Corpus’ from a transcribed conversation in a MF Animal Hospital Report involved extracting frequently used words by KH coder and translating them into English. There were 1545 different word types in the compiled corpus and the total word token was 6653 words. Based on the word list and the results of a questionnaire completed by active veterinary nurses as well as former nurses, expressions for English conversation were extracted and translated into English. The results of this study identify the possibility of compiling a larger scale parallel veterinary nursing corpus, and suggest how those corpora can be made use of in actual English classes for veterinary nursing students.
