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Vocabulary is a fundamental component of a language and of critical importance to the middle school students. Therefore, how to help students acquire vocabulary is one of the most important tasks for language teaching English words are the most important elements in the English study. “Without grammar, little can be conveyed and without vocabulary nothing can be conveyed. (Wilkins, 1972).
However, we found a common appearance in the English vocabulary learning: when students spend a lot of time to remember vocabularies through reciting one by one, they own many words independently but they cannot apply to these vocabularies when they use them to write, read and so on. The famous linguists Harmer compared grammar to skeleton and vocabulary with organs, blood and flesh. (王笃勤，2002).
The thesis refers to the vocabulary teaching method in middle school. It discusses the four teaching methods such as structural teaching method, situational teaching method, communicative teaching method and audiovisual teaching method. These methods of vocabulary teaching in the hope of helping to find appropriate strategies to memorize vocabulary firmly are presented in every chapter and some effective ways of vocabulary are suggested so as to arouse students’ interest in vocabulary learning and enlarge their vocabulary successfully.
Vocabulary is very important for language learners. It is starting point of learning foreign language. Students’ reading, listening and writing are greatly influenced by their size of vocabulary. It is for better to spend time on strategies that the learners can use to deal with these words than to spend time on individual words (Nation, 1990:159). So it is clear that if a teacher wants to help students cope with vocabulary, particularly in reading, he’d better teach them some strategies first. Without vocabulary, it would be impossible to learn a foreign language. English words are the most important elements in English study. Just like bricks in building a house. If you have no bricks, you cannot set up a house with a large enough vocabulary, Students are able to read extensively and spend their knowledge. Thus they can speak fluently and write easily, smoothly. Increasing the students’ vocabulary co increase their facility in communication. If students are poor in vocabulary, they cannot express themselves clearly and they cannot communicate with others. Living in the world, everybody has to get in touch with others, nobody can live independently. The English linguist George W. Wilkins (1972) argues, “Without grammar very little can be conveyed, without vocabulary nothing can be conveyed.”So vocabulary is the basic building blocks of language. It is the foundation of English learning to master a certain number of words. In fact, whether an English learner has a large vocabulary, it becomes one of the measurements to judge the level of his learning.
Word is an important part of English knowledge and constitutes a component of our mental grammar. But the main problems of students’vocabulary acquisition are memorizing of words, mastery of word meaning and application of words. And the purpose of vocabulary teaching is to help students solve these problems so as to master the target language.
“Language is partly a science and partly an art.” The English teachers can be successful in teaching if they have effective teaching methods. But the most important thing is that teachers try to arouse students’interest and activate their motivation by making learning vocabulary interesting and vivid with effective ways. They should help students consider the factor that affect their learning and discover the learning vocabulary strategies that suit them best. Strategy training can be particularly valuable to students in middle school. Teaching of some effective learning strategies cannot only facilitate their learning of English, but also develop the capacity for taking charge of their own learning independently in the life-long learning process. The following vocabulary learning methods: word-building rules and common affixes, pronunciation and spelling rules, lexical sets, translation and exemplify, context or sentence pattern, various activities, culture, real objects and employing demonstrations etc, can be trained to help the students acquire vocabulary.
By situational method we find that the key of English vocabulary teaching is to grasp the context. We must reply on information of all aspects supplied by context to define the word meaning. The role that context plays in the understanding of word meaning cannot be taken place by any dictionary teaching vocabulary combined with context helps to create English atmosphere, develops the ability of using English. English vocabulary teaching is an important link in English teaching for this reason. More attention should be paid to part that context plays in vocabulary teaching.
Students are responsible for their learning. In communicative method in circumstance, students should play a role in various activities. But there are some teachers cannot guide and help their students to be a better learner of English. The teacher should offer them more possible chances to study further and do some contributions to the cause of national culture.
However, we found a common appearance in the English vocabulary learning: when students spend a lot of time to remember vocabularies through reciting one by one, they own many words independently but they cannot apply to these vocabularies when they use them to write, read and so on. The famous linguists Harmer compared grammar to skeleton and vocabulary with organs, blood and flesh. (王笃勤，2002).
The thesis main refers to vocabulary teaching method in middle school. It is composed of four vocabulary-teaching methods. It included that structural teaching method, situational teaching method, communicative teaching method and audiovisual teaching method. These methods of vocabulary teaching in the hope of helping to find appropriate strategies to memorize vocabulary firmly, especially, interesting methods are presented in every chapter and some effective ways of vocabulary are suggested so as to arouse students’ interest in vocabulary learning and enlarge their vocabulary successfully.
How to teach English vocabulary efficiently is a question faced by all teachers of English. It goes without saying that each teacher has his own ways of teaching vocabulary. And there are some common methods for it. In recent years there have appeared a few books on methods for teaching English. 〖JP3〗Many ways are suitable for explaining. Most research
on vocabulary learning strategies has focused on various methods of vocabulary, and their effects on retention, i.e. the most studied vocabulary learning strategies are memory strategies (Gu & Johnson, 1996). Gu & Johnson focused on the relationship between vocabulary learning strategies and vocabulary size .They investigated the vocabulary learning strategies used by 850 Chinese learners of English and the relationship between vocabulary learning strategy use and learning outcomes as measured in terms of vocabulary size and general language proficiency. The researchers correlated the results of a questionnaire with those of vocabulary test and a language proficiency test. Contextual guessing, the skills of using dictionaries, note-taking, and activation of newly learned words correlated positively with the true test scores, but visual repetition of new words was the strongest negative predictor of both vocabulary size and general proficiency. An attempt was also made to identify five groups of learners based on the combination of strategies used. In the same view, Lawson and Hogben (1996) discovered that vocabulary-learning strategies involving elaborate processing are more useful than repetition based ones.
All in all, this piece is intended to introduce and illustrate some additional ways and means for teaching English vocabulary. The thesis may also help develop the students’ skills and habits of reciting vocabulary in his study of English, so that his interest in the study of the English language as a whole will be increased, and his comprehension will be enhanced.
However, we found a common appearance in the English vocabulary learning: when students spend a lot of time to remember vocabularies through reciting one by one, they own many words independently but they cannot apply to these vocabularies when they use them to write, read and so on. The famous linguists Harmer compared grammar to skeleton and vocabulary with organs, blood and flesh. (王笃勤，2002).
The thesis refers to the vocabulary teaching method in middle school. It discusses the four teaching methods such as structural teaching method, situational teaching method, communicative teaching method and audiovisual teaching method. These methods of vocabulary teaching in the hope of helping to find appropriate strategies to memorize vocabulary firmly are presented in every chapter and some effective ways of vocabulary are suggested so as to arouse students’ interest in vocabulary learning and enlarge their vocabulary successfully.
Vocabulary is very important for language learners. It is starting point of learning foreign language. Students’ reading, listening and writing are greatly influenced by their size of vocabulary. It is for better to spend time on strategies that the learners can use to deal with these words than to spend time on individual words (Nation, 1990:159). So it is clear that if a teacher wants to help students cope with vocabulary, particularly in reading, he’d better teach them some strategies first. Without vocabulary, it would be impossible to learn a foreign language. English words are the most important elements in English study. Just like bricks in building a house. If you have no bricks, you cannot set up a house with a large enough vocabulary, Students are able to read extensively and spend their knowledge. Thus they can speak fluently and write easily, smoothly. Increasing the students’ vocabulary co increase their facility in communication. If students are poor in vocabulary, they cannot express themselves clearly and they cannot communicate with others. Living in the world, everybody has to get in touch with others, nobody can live independently. The English linguist George W. Wilkins (1972) argues, “Without grammar very little can be conveyed, without vocabulary nothing can be conveyed.”So vocabulary is the basic building blocks of language. It is the foundation of English learning to master a certain number of words. In fact, whether an English learner has a large vocabulary, it becomes one of the measurements to judge the level of his learning.
Word is an important part of English knowledge and constitutes a component of our mental grammar. But the main problems of students’vocabulary acquisition are memorizing of words, mastery of word meaning and application of words. And the purpose of vocabulary teaching is to help students solve these problems so as to master the target language.
“Language is partly a science and partly an art.” The English teachers can be successful in teaching if they have effective teaching methods. But the most important thing is that teachers try to arouse students’interest and activate their motivation by making learning vocabulary interesting and vivid with effective ways. They should help students consider the factor that affect their learning and discover the learning vocabulary strategies that suit them best. Strategy training can be particularly valuable to students in middle school. Teaching of some effective learning strategies cannot only facilitate their learning of English, but also develop the capacity for taking charge of their own learning independently in the life-long learning process. The following vocabulary learning methods: word-building rules and common affixes, pronunciation and spelling rules, lexical sets, translation and exemplify, context or sentence pattern, various activities, culture, real objects and employing demonstrations etc, can be trained to help the students acquire vocabulary.
By situational method we find that the key of English vocabulary teaching is to grasp the context. We must reply on information of all aspects supplied by context to define the word meaning. The role that context plays in the understanding of word meaning cannot be taken place by any dictionary teaching vocabulary combined with context helps to create English atmosphere, develops the ability of using English. English vocabulary teaching is an important link in English teaching for this reason. More attention should be paid to part that context plays in vocabulary teaching.
Students are responsible for their learning. In communicative method in circumstance, students should play a role in various activities. But there are some teachers cannot guide and help their students to be a better learner of English. The teacher should offer them more possible chances to study further and do some contributions to the cause of national culture.
However, we found a common appearance in the English vocabulary learning: when students spend a lot of time to remember vocabularies through reciting one by one, they own many words independently but they cannot apply to these vocabularies when they use them to write, read and so on. The famous linguists Harmer compared grammar to skeleton and vocabulary with organs, blood and flesh. (王笃勤，2002).
The thesis main refers to vocabulary teaching method in middle school. It is composed of four vocabulary-teaching methods. It included that structural teaching method, situational teaching method, communicative teaching method and audiovisual teaching method. These methods of vocabulary teaching in the hope of helping to find appropriate strategies to memorize vocabulary firmly, especially, interesting methods are presented in every chapter and some effective ways of vocabulary are suggested so as to arouse students’ interest in vocabulary learning and enlarge their vocabulary successfully.
How to teach English vocabulary efficiently is a question faced by all teachers of English. It goes without saying that each teacher has his own ways of teaching vocabulary. And there are some common methods for it. In recent years there have appeared a few books on methods for teaching English. 〖JP3〗Many ways are suitable for explaining. Most research
on vocabulary learning strategies has focused on various methods of vocabulary, and their effects on retention, i.e. the most studied vocabulary learning strategies are memory strategies (Gu & Johnson, 1996). Gu & Johnson focused on the relationship between vocabulary learning strategies and vocabulary size .They investigated the vocabulary learning strategies used by 850 Chinese learners of English and the relationship between vocabulary learning strategy use and learning outcomes as measured in terms of vocabulary size and general language proficiency. The researchers correlated the results of a questionnaire with those of vocabulary test and a language proficiency test. Contextual guessing, the skills of using dictionaries, note-taking, and activation of newly learned words correlated positively with the true test scores, but visual repetition of new words was the strongest negative predictor of both vocabulary size and general proficiency. An attempt was also made to identify five groups of learners based on the combination of strategies used. In the same view, Lawson and Hogben (1996) discovered that vocabulary-learning strategies involving elaborate processing are more useful than repetition based ones.
All in all, this piece is intended to introduce and illustrate some additional ways and means for teaching English vocabulary. The thesis may also help develop the students’ skills and habits of reciting vocabulary in his study of English, so that his interest in the study of the English language as a whole will be increased, and his comprehension will be enhanced.