StrategiesforEnglishVocabularyLearning分析和总结分析和总结.docxVIP

PAGE PAGE 10 Strategies for English Vocabulary Learning Introduction Research background and purpose With the openness to the world after decades of isolation and an explosion in commercial, technological, and cultural exchanges with Western countries, China is experiencing transition. Moreover, with China’s joining the market-based global economy, its fast-moving world financial markets appeal to many foreign companies. This financial growth has given rise to a pressing demand for large numbers of competent users of English in a wide range of professions and businesses. Such recent political, economic, and social factors will have a great impact on English language teaching and learning in China. Hence, how to improve learners’ ability of learning English in order to meet new demands seems imperative. In the past 25 years, the field of second language acquisition has seen the reemergence of interest in one area of language study, i.e. vocabulary, and the appearance of a newly recognized aspect learning strategies. Vocabulary is a fundamentally important aspect of language learning. Learning a language is just like constructing a building, in which vocabulary, the building materials, is essential. Vocabulary knowledge enables language use, language use enables the increase of vocabulary knowledge, and knowledge of the world enables the increase of vocabulary knowledge and language use and so on. Rubin Thompson once said, “One can’t speak, understand, read or write a foreign language without knowing a lot of words. ” Therefore, vocabulary is at the heart of mastering a foreign language. In China, the importance of vocabulary in second language acquisition has been greatly recognized. However, teachers put great emphasis on explaining grammar and developing students’ reading skill, leaving vocabulary to students themselves. To students, they believe, learning a word means knowing its pronunciation, spelling, and meanings, which can be memorize absolute