Lexical Priming and its Implication to Language Teaching and Learning
Lexical priming, as proposed by Michael Hoey, is a psychological concept and the way a word may provoke another particular word(s). This paper will firstly dwell on what lexical priming means and then explores into the statistical evidence of some English words in BNC and CLEC, illustrating that the lexical primings of words at the disposal of Chinese learners of English are not identical to those for native speakers of English in terms of semantic collocation, grammatical construction, and pragmatic function. The paper argues that Chinese speakers of English use the same English word but might mean different things. It is suggested, therefore, that both teachers and learners of English should make the best use of the linguistic resources in corpus and be aware of the significance of frequency of use in the interpretation of design features of language.
Lexical priming collocation colligation frequency naturalness
Yuchen Yang
Northeast Normal University, China
国际会议
2017东北亚语言学文学和教学国际论坛(2017 NALLTS)
山西吕梁
英文
79-83
2017-06-23（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）