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The practical course of medical English for academic purpose is the academic module of medical English teaching system. Based on the target situation analysis, the course consists of reading and writing of scientific papers, design of academic posters, and oral presentation in academic conferences, all of which focus on the selected key literature. During the course, the genre analysis theory, task-based teaching and situational teaching were applied to help students to improve their practical competence of academic English through accomplishing different kinds of academic communicative activities.
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Textbook construction is an important part of building TCM English teaching system and its key research point is summarizing and exploring the basic principles and laws for guiding the compilation practice. This article tried to apply the theory of English for Specific Purpose and combine the compilation practice of English for TCM to explore the particular principles for compiling TCM English textbook.