[ASIA CALL 2003 News] ASIA CALL 2003 Abstract - Dr. Cho

[Larry Chong]

Dear ASIA CALLers & Subscribers!

We are very pleased to lease our keynote speakers' abstracts in turn.
This is from Dr. Cho, Korea.

Globally yours,

Larry Chong, Chair


Speaker
Dr. Euiyon Cho (Dongguk University, R.O.Korea)

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Teaching Lexical semantics from a Pedagogical Perspective



                   Euiyon Cho, Ph.D.

            (Dongguk University)



    This paper presents the account of a procedure I devised for teaching
lexical semantics

with the collocation corpus from a pedagogical perspective, drawing on
current ideas of

lexical semantics and corpus-based foreign language teaching.

 Based on the idea that ¡®meaning is use¡¯ and ¡®the unit of meaning in the
study of language

in use is not a single word but a phrase¡¯ (Stubbs 2001), computer tools are
used to help students

 analyze collocations to find out usage of words as well as figuring out
what sense of a word is

used in context and whether its semantic prosody is positive or negative.

The relevance of language learning and language teaching directly arises
from the fact that the corpus

 of collocation is used to work with students.

Since, in a concordance-based CALL, learners play the role of a linguistic
researcher (Johns 1997),

 teaching lexical semantics with the aid of the collocation corpus will also
help the learners become

involved in a research training program.