A STUDY ON CORPUS-BASED EFL VOCABULARY TEACHING

Abstract

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