JOURNAL OF BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOM ›› 2016, Vol. 18 ›› Issue (5): 95-101.

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Integration of Vocabulary and Grammar Teaching

  

  1. School of Humanities, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China
  • Received:2016-03-13 Online:2016-10-31

Abstract:

A study investigating corpus-based exemplar Chinese sentences in the field of teaching Chinese as a
foreign language is reported. Guided by the theoretical frameworks in psycholinguistics, a Chinese corpus and
selected exemplar sentences are analyzed following two guidelines: the principles of lexical collocation and the
types of the target words in discourse organization. Then, through analyzing the interlanguage data, the
developmental sequence of the syntactic structures and components of the exemplar sentences are identified
according to frequency effects of Chinese language processing. Finally, major syntactic focus and contextual
characteristics of the exemplar sentences are determined by means of error analysis of the L2 learners. In the
light of current situation in Chinese teaching, the challenges and suggestions for integrating vocabulary and
grammar instruction are discussed.

Key words: corpus, vocabulary teaching, exemplar sentences, grammar teaching

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