Korean students confuse the two words: trip and travel. These are one of the most confusing words to use for korean students.  Part of the difference between the two is usage: trip is used when it is a short-term leave, whereas travel is used when it is a long-term leave. These two words have also some different meaning. Trip is used when people commute to their work. To find out the meaning difference, I examined KWIC concordance lines from The Corpus of Contemporary American English (Davies, 2008-). It reveals typical phrases what I look for

    A sort to the right shows that “to” usually comes after trip and travel for both. The most common phrase including trip was trip to.  Similarly, some tokens of trip showed up in the phrase “ trip over or trip on” These means also similar to the meaning of trip to. It means going on a short-term leave. The most common phrase including travel was also travel to. It means going on a long-term leave.

    There are more informations for Korean students. In my opinion, if they use this program properly, it would be very helpful for the students. The students would use travel and trip without confusion.

Davies, Mark. (2008-) The Corpus of Contemporary American English: 450 million words, 1990-present. Available online at http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/.