Analysis of Semantics of a Selected Lexical Item and its Pedagogical Implications

Yirong Yuan

The article demonstrated the importance of semantics of vocabulary in the pedagogical context by analyzing a commonly used word—old.

Semantics; Old; Denotation and Connotation; Pedagogy

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18686/ahe.v6i12.5091