Distinguishing the meanings of near synonyms always seems to be a challenging task for Chinese EFL learners,as is the case with bring about and give rise to be exemplified in the paper.I will use a corpus approach to ...Distinguishing the meanings of near synonyms always seems to be a challenging task for Chinese EFL learners,as is the case with bring about and give rise to be exemplified in the paper.I will use a corpus approach to unveil some implied semantic patterns and pragmatic features of the two phrases,and generalize their semantic prosodies as used by native English speakers by analyzing what kinds of nouns tend to co-occur with them,and also discuss whether there is a transfer of negative semantic prosody from the word cause to the two phrases under discussion.展开更多
Corpus-based studies show that near-synonyms differ in their collocational behavior and semantic prosody which causes deviation in Chinese EFL learners’English using.This paper attempts to investigate the effectivene...Corpus-based studies show that near-synonyms differ in their collocational behavior and semantic prosody which causes deviation in Chinese EFL learners’English using.This paper attempts to investigate the effectiveness of a corpus-based approach to the teaching and learning of near synonyms and their collocations.By using internet accessible computers to log on to websites of BNC and COCA,learners can view real language data and study the usage of targeted near synonyms.This empirical study tends to show that a corpus based approach is positively effective to the learning of near synonyms.It also provides some pedagogical implications that learners can play a major and active role in DDL and teachers only act as assistants.展开更多
文摘Distinguishing the meanings of near synonyms always seems to be a challenging task for Chinese EFL learners,as is the case with bring about and give rise to be exemplified in the paper.I will use a corpus approach to unveil some implied semantic patterns and pragmatic features of the two phrases,and generalize their semantic prosodies as used by native English speakers by analyzing what kinds of nouns tend to co-occur with them,and also discuss whether there is a transfer of negative semantic prosody from the word cause to the two phrases under discussion.
文摘Corpus-based studies show that near-synonyms differ in their collocational behavior and semantic prosody which causes deviation in Chinese EFL learners’English using.This paper attempts to investigate the effectiveness of a corpus-based approach to the teaching and learning of near synonyms and their collocations.By using internet accessible computers to log on to websites of BNC and COCA,learners can view real language data and study the usage of targeted near synonyms.This empirical study tends to show that a corpus based approach is positively effective to the learning of near synonyms.It also provides some pedagogical implications that learners can play a major and active role in DDL and teachers only act as assistants.
