An Analysis of “起因” and “原因” in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language

Abstract

This article takes the teacher's answer to students' analysis questions about “起因（qǐyīn）” and “原因（yuányīn）” in second language teaching practice as an example to illustrate the teacher's shortcomings in the analysis of content words in synonyms, that is, the traditional introspection method has strong subjectivity in words analysis. Then, combined with the advantages of the corpus, method and suggestions for synonym analysis of “起因（qǐyīn）” and “原因（yuányīn）” are put forward, reflecting the theoretical framework, methods, principles and other achievements of existing research on synonym analysis.