There are over two million modern English words, thus English becomes a language with the largest vocabulary in the world. Moreover, English vocabulary is constantly being renewed and enlarged with the development of the society and advancement of science and technology. So vocabulary development becomes language learners’ top priority. Unfortunately, learning English words by rote can’t guarantee that students will have a large vocabulary, let alone enable students to make practical use of the words they have learned in real life communication. So in order to arouse students’ interest in learning English as well as to help students to develop a language competence, a number of effective vocabulary teaching methods such as context teaching, teaching cultural connotation and cultural differences, teaching vocabulary with Semantic Field Theory are presented in this paper. There are over two million modern English words, thus English becomes a language with the largest vocabulary in the world. Moreover, English becomes a language with the largest vocabulary in the world. learners ’top priority. Unfortunately, learning English words by rote can not guarantee that students will have a large vocabulary, let alone enable students to make practical use of the words they have learned in real life communication. So in order to arouse students’ interest in learning English as well as to help students to develop a language competence, a number of effective vocabulary teaching methods such as context teaching, teaching cultural connotation and cultural differences, teaching vocabulary with Semantic Field Theory are presented in this paper.