Synonyms and Corpus Analysis: On About And Around (Published)
This paper presents an exploratory corpus study of synonymous prepositions ‘about’ and ‘around’ and compares their usage and distribution differences, patterns, and similarities. The data sources are dictionaries that explain the relationship the two synonyms share, situational and contextual usage and the distinct meanings while transforming into other parts of speech. This study demonstrates the affinity between the two words and the immeasurable meanings and semantic relations they share. Finally, a corpus-based analysis of the two words reveals the collocations, frequency and context collocations they significantly occur.
Keywords: Corpus, Dictionary, Distribution, Language analysis, similarities
AN EMPIRICAL RESEARCH ON THE CORPUS-DRIVEN LEXICAL CHUNKS INSTRUCTION (Published)
Lexical chunks, as the composites of form, meaning and function, stored and retrieved as a whole in brain, can release the language processing burden and improve the fluency and idiomaticity of language output. With the advance of corpus linguistics, the corpus is commonly used in language teaching and language research, and its function of concordance and key word in context (KWIC) can promote the acquisition of lexical chunks. The paper aims to explore the effects of the corpus-driven lexical chunks instruction in students’ lexical chunks acquisition through tow-year longitudinal study.60 freshmen of 2009 are involved in the corpus-driven lexical chunks instruction experiment, who are divided into high-level, medium-level and low-level three groups according to their writing score in pretest. At the end of each term, the writings of the students are collected for analysis. The results show us a different pattern in the use of lexical chunks for these three groups of students.
Keywords: Corpus, Data-Driven Learning, Lexical Chunks, Lexical Chunks Application Competence, Lexical Chunks Instruction
An Empirical Research on the Corpus-driven Lexical Chunks Instruction (Review Completed - Accepted)
Lexical chunks, as the composites of form, meaning and function, stored and retrieved as a whole in brain, can release the language processing burden and improve the fluency and idiomaticity of language output. With the advance of corpus linguistics, the corpus is commonly used in language teaching and language research, and its function of concordance and key word in context (KWIC) can promote the acquisition of lexical chunks. The paper aims to explore the effects of the corpus-driven lexical chunks instruction in students’ lexical chunks acquisition through tow-year longitudinal study.60 freshmen of 2009 are involved in the corpus-driven lexical chunks instruction experiment, who are divided into high-level, medium-level and low-level three groups according to their writing score in pretest. At the end of each term, the writings of the students are collected for analysis. The results show us a different pattern in the use of lexical chunks for these three groups of students
Keywords: Corpus, Data-Driven Learning, Lexical Chunks, Lexical Chunks Application Competence, Lexical Chunks Instruction