Corpus-based studies show that near-synonyms differ in their collocational behavior and semantic prosody which causes deviation in Chinese EFL learners'English using. This paper attempts to investigate the effectiveness of a corpus-based approach to the teaching and learning of near synonyms and their collocations. By using internet accessible computers to log on to websites of BNC and COCA, learners can view real language data and study the usage of targeted near synonyms. This empirical study tends to show that a corpus based approach is positively effective to the learning of near synonyms. It also provides some pedagogical impli-cations that learners can play a major and active role in DDL and teachers only act as assistants.
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