A Study of StudentCentered English Vocabulary Teaching 英语毕业论文.docVIP

A Study of Student-Centered English Vocabulary Teaching I. Introduction A. Vocabulary If language structures make up the skeleton of language, it is vocabulary that provides the vital organs and the flesh. Vocabulary is one of the most important essentials of language, and it is also the basis of language communication. In vocabulary researches, vocabulary refers to not only the single words, but also the “chunks” such as phrases and idioms (1). And in Oxford Advanced Learner’s English-Chinese Dictionary, the definition of the vocabulary is a total number of the words that make up a language .It is the basic meaningful unit in language communication. B. English vocabulary teaching English vocabulary teaching is the primary and essential part of English teaching. This is because we cannot express anything perfect without vocabulary; we cannot carry on the basic language communication such as listening, speaking, reading, writing and translation if there has no vocabulary. We need to have a store of vocabulary, which we can select from freely when we wish to express our thoughts. For students, mastering a certain number of vocabularies is the key to learning English. As everyone knows, the greater vocabulary one masters, the stronger skill in applying language he/she will have. But to our Chinese students, the vocabulary learning is a great difficulty in English learning. What is more, many of the students always consider that “vocabulary learning” is to recite the words which are appeared in the text. They think that if they can remember all those words, they will finish their vocabulary learning. As a matter of fact, their vocabulary learning still stays in the combination of “pronunciation, spelling and meaning”, and almost all their time and energy are used in these three parts. This will bring failures to them in learning and communication. Thus, the teacher’s vocabulary teaching becomes especially important. C. Purpose of teaching vocabulary The purpose of teach