Abstract—Phrasal verbs (PV) are frequently used by native
speakers of English. As a result, it is critical to include PVs in
teaching routine to prepare students to be fluent English
speakers. However, PVs are very difficult to teach due to their
polysemic nature. In order to find out if China’s textbooks
contain enough frequently-used PVs, the essay compares PVs
in China’s textbooks with those in British National Corpus
(BNC) and Corpus of Contemporary American English
(COCA).
Index Terms—Corpus, English, phrasal verbs, textbook.
Wenting Yang is with Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (e-mail:
weyang@tcd.ie).
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Cite: Wenting Yang, "Phrasal Verbs in English Textbooks Used in China’s High School: A Multicorpus-Based Analysis," International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 148-152, 2019.