Research on Corpus-based College English Vocabulary Teaching

In China, some researchers have investigated corpus-based college English vocabulary teaching and yielded some positive results. Their studies have confirmed the effectiveness of the use of a corpus in EFL vocabulary teaching both in theory and in practice. Nevertheless, as a new approach to vocabulary teaching which can improve the efficiency and effectiveness of EFL learners’ vocabulary acquisition, corpus-based vocabulary teaching has not been put into widespread use so far for various reasons such as college English teachers’ lack of sufficient knowledge of corpus linguistics and corpus-related software programs. On the basis of reviewing the previous studies on corpus-based college English vocabulary teaching and analyzing the current situation in English vocabulary instruction in China, this paper has offered some useful suggestions on how to carry out further research in this field and how to prompt English teachers to conduct corpus-based vocabulary teaching in EFL classrooms.