A Contrastive Study of Semantic Prosody between English Native Speak-ers and Chinese English Learners - Case Study of“Avoid”

摘要

In this paper,the author uses data-driven and contrastive interlanguage analysis approach, applying AntConc 3.2.1 as the tool, to make a comparison between corpus FLOB and CLEC on the using of the word“avoid”. The result shows that the se⁃mantic prosodic tendency between the two communities is in great similarities but also have differences. Through comparison and analysis, the author finds the hidden reason and summarizes how to improve.