A STUDY ON CORPUS-BASED EFL VOCABULARY TEACHING

Lu Hongyan (Xiamen University Tan Kah Kee College, Zhangzhou, China)

ISLLAC : Journal of Intensive Studies on Language, Literature, Art, and Culture
Vol 2, No 2 (2018)

This paper introduces the development of corpus linguistics and its advantages in EFL(English as Foreigner Language) vocabulary teaching from three aspects: theapplication of corpus into the vocabulary teaching can greatly improve the efficiencyfor vocabulary teaching by providing the word frequency. And by co-presenting theactual cases of different usages and contexts of the word, the corpus can help to avoidthe negative language transfer and thus enhance the learners’ comprehension andacquisition of the vocabulary.