Combining Corpus and Cognitive Linguistics in English Lexical Teaching

Although numerous researches have been done on corpus and cognitive linguistics, only a few researches combine them together, especially in language teaching. It provides a theoretical guidance for combining corpus and cognitive linguistics in English lexical teaching. Linguists should take both the frequency and cognitive theories into consideration when they decide which word should be included in the lexical syllabus because there is sometimes a difference between the frequency and the tuition. What's more, the combination in lexical teaching can help EFL (English as a Foreign Language) learners to better deal with some common problems such as homonymy and synonymy.