VOCABULARY ACQUISITION IN TEACHING LSP.
A CASE STUDY APPROACH TO HOW ROMANIAN MEDICAL
STUDENTS ACQUIRE FRENCH MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY

This paper researches and presents a case study approach to teaching lexical items to
facilitate vocabulary acquisition of French for specific purposes. Given a confirmed lack of
conventional teaching materials in several domains, the research questions addressed in this
study relate to the principles and guidelines for initiating and facilitating foreign languages
for specific purposes (LSP) vocabulary learning and to the most effective learning strategies
and skills that students use while learning and expanding their LSP vocabulary. The
beneficiary target group consists of first-year Romanian students who study Medicine and
who have chosen French for Specific Purposes as their second language. Literature and
practice have noted a significant deficiency in textbooks and grammar books for Romanian
students who want to emigrate to French-speaking countries. Hence, this paper highlights
theoretic and practical methods to be considered in terms of teaching French medical
vocabulary, based on students’ studying predilections.