Chapter 1 Introduction Part 1 Describing and Teaching Challenging Lexico-Grammatical Issues Chapter 2 A Study of the Acquisition of the Article the in Nongeneric Uses and Its Pedagogical Implications Chapter 3 Intransitive or Object Deleting?Classifying English Verbs Used without an Object and Its Pedagogical Research Implications Chapter 4 Adequate Language Description in L2 Research Teaching:The Case of Pro-Drop Language Speakers Learning L2 English。 Chapter 5 Corpus——Based Lexico——Grammatical Approach to Grammar Instruction in EFL and ESL Contexts Chapter 6 Making Grammar Instruction More Empowering:An Exploratory Case Study of Corpus Use in the Learning Teaching of Grammar Chapter 7 Combining Cognitive and Corpus Linguistic Approaches in Language Research and Teaching:Theoretical Grounding,Practices,and Challenges Chapter 8 Going beyond Patterns:Involving Corpus-Based Cognitive Analysis in the Learning of Collocations Part II Describing and Teaching Di~cult Lexical Usages Chapter 9 Chinese EFL Learners'Acquisition of Culturally Loaded Words and Its Pedagogical Implications Chapter 10 Researching and Understanding Synonymous Adjectives:A Corpus-Based Behavioral Study of Cnief,Major,Primary,and Main Chapter 11 Research and Understanding of Synonymous Adverbs:A Corpus-Based Behavioral Study of actually,genuinely,really,and truly Chapter 12 Research and Understanding Synonymous Nouns: A Corpus and Cognitive Analysis of Two Sets of Synonymous Nouns Chapter 13 L2 VSL1 Use of Synonymy:A Combined Corpus and Cognitive Linguistic Study of Synonym Use and Acquisition Chapter 14 Using Corpora to Help Teach Difficult-to·-Distinguish English Words Part III Developing Useful Corpus·Based Vocabulary Lists for Learning and Teaching Chapter 1 5 A Corpus Study of the Most Frequently Used Spoken American English Idioms and Its Implications for Material Writing and Teaching Chapter 1 6 A Corpus Study of the Most Useful Linking Adverbials across Registers and Its Pedagogical Implications Chapter 1 7 A Corpus Study of the Most Frequently-Used English Phrasal Verbs and Its Pedagogical Implications Chapter 1 8 A Corpus Study of the Most Common Multi-Word Units and Sentence Stems in Academic English Chapter 19 Conclusion Collected References