2018 Annual Conference of China English Language Education Association (CELEA2018)

191 / 2018-06-30 17:13:56

A Semantic Prosody Analysis on Chinese Learners'and Native Speakers' Writings

semantic prosody,language teaching,collocation

Plenary track > 中国特色英语教学研究

The concept of semantic prosody has attracted great research interest in language teaching. Identifying learners’ perception of semantic prosody and collocation may be beneficial to vocabulary teaching. This study analyzes two pairs of synonyms in English writings of Chinese students and English native speakers based on the ICNALE corpus. The analysis finds that Chinese writers’ perception of semantic prosody is mostly consistent with that of native speakers. However, the use of collocation is quite different between them.
摘要：词汇的语义韵和搭配行为在词汇学习中起着重要的作用，了解学习者对词汇语义韵和搭配的掌握有利于更有效的词汇教学。本文通过对中国学习者和英语母语者就同一话题进行的写作语料中increase/rise和reduce/decrease两组近义词进行分析，研究发现中国学习者在这些词的使用中能够很好地掌握语义韵的区别，但在词汇的搭配上与英语母语者存在差异。