多媒体环境下的大学英语词汇教学-外国语言学与应用语言学专业论文.docx

COLLEGE ENGLISH VOCABULARY INSTRUCTION IN MULTIMEDIA SETTINGS By Yuan Yanghua Under the Supervision of Prof. Zhang Ming A thesis Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts to the School of Foreign Studies Anhui University April 2008 i i PAGE PAGE iv Acknowledgements First of all, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to all the respectable professors of Anhui University who have taught and helped me in my post-graduate studies, especially to Professor Zhu Xiaomei, Professor Zhu Yue, Professor Zhou Fangzhu, Dr. Hu Jian, and Dr. Yang Ling, for their help and advice. Special thanks go to my supervisor, Professor Zhang Ming. Without his patient guidance, careful revision and insightful instruction, I would never have been able to bring this thesis into light. His erudition, strictness and patience as a supervisor; and his kindness, consideration and tolerance as a friend make my study more than meaningful. He teaches me not only how to conduct research on second language acquisition, but also how to be an upright person. I do wish to dedicate this thesis to him, with most of the virtues due to him but the demerits to myself. I feel tremendously grateful to the students participating in my research. But for their cooperation, the data collection for the paper would have been impossible. Abstract Vocabulary learning is central to language acquisition, and is also the biggest headache for most college students in China. Therefore, it is an important issue for teachers to work out an effective way of vocabulary instruction. As we know, the development of computer has greatly improved teaching environment and holds great potential for language education. Language teachers have utilized multimedia computer in many aspects of language instruction, such as, listening, reading and writing, but the author finds that few researchers apply multimedia to vocabulary instruction, so the author tries to prove that, multimedia could e