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AnInvestigationintoEnglishVocabularyLearninginHanzhongRuralSeniorHighSchoolStudents

研究报告

题目：

汉中市乡镇高中生英语词汇学习现状调查与研究

姓名：

李莹

2012年6月5日

Abstract

VocabularyisveryimportantinEnglishlearning;however,therearefewerstudiesonseniorhighschoolstudents’vocabularylearning.Withthenewcurriculumcomingintouse,seniorstudentsarerequiredtomastermorewords.Therearemoreproblemsintheruralseniorstudents’Englishlearning.Byaninvestigationoftheruralseniorstudents’vocabularylearningbeliefs,difficultiesinvocabularylearningcontentandthecurrentsituationsofvocabularylearningstrategies,thispaperpresentsthecurrentvocabularylearningsituationoftheseniorStudentsinHanzhongruralareas.Theresultsshowthatmoststudentshavechangedthebeliefthatvocabularylearningismainlytorecite.Moststudentshaverealizedthatlearningstrategiesarenecessaryandhelpful,butlessofthemhaveputthestrategiesintouse.Inthecourseoftheirvocabularylearning,theyhavedifficultiesontheusageofwords.Adjectives,adverbsandprepositionsaremoredifficulty.Theseproblemsarerelatedtoruralareas’poorteachingfacilities,thetraditionalteachingmodesandteachingbeliefs,students’poorstudyconditionsandtheirownstudyconsciousness.

Keywords:

investigation;vocabularylearning;seniorstudents;rural

摘要

词汇在英语学习中有着重要地位，而关于初高中生的词汇学习现状的研究较少.在新课改的情况下，对高中生的词汇量也有更高的要求。

而农村乡镇高中生的英语学习问题较多，学习效率不高。

因此，本文通过问卷调查的方式以乡村高中生的角度从学生的英语词汇学习的观念、在词汇学习内容中的困难和基本策略的使用现状三方面对汉中市乡镇高中生英语词汇学习现状进行调查，并发现目前大部分的学生已经转变了词汇是靠背的这种学习观念，并认识到学策略对词汇学习的帮助，但并未将学习策略用于学习中；在词汇的学习中对词汇的用法关注较少，且在副词和形容词及介词的学习上存在困难。

这一现状与乡镇高中教学设备和教学资源相对落后、教师陈旧的教学方式和教学观念、乡村家庭中较差的学习条件和学生薄弱的学习意识相关。

[关键词]乡镇;高中生;词汇学习;现状

AnInvestigationintoEnglishVocabularyLearninginHanzhongRuralSeniorHighSchoolStudents

1.Introduction

Languagesmustbeofthreebasicelements.Theyarephonetics,vocabularyandgrammar.Phoneticsistheouterformofthelanguage;vocabularyandgrammararetheinternalstructure.Inthisstructure,vocabularyislikethebasicarchitecturematerial,suchasbrickandstone,andgrammarislikethetackinessagenttobondthebricksandstones.[1]Englishlearningdoesnotworkwithoutvocabularylearning.“Wereitnotforgrammar,alotofthingscan’tbeexpressed;however,iftherewerenowords,wecouldn’texpressanything.”[2]

ForChinesestudents,theirmainproblemisvocabularylearninginthecourseofEnglishlearning.[3]ThePreviousEnglishcoursesyllabusdemandsthestudentstohaveamasteryof1200wordsand750phrasesinthreeyears’studyinhighschool.However,theNewEnglishCurriculumforSeniorHighSchool（testingmanuscript）issuedbyministryofeducationdemandsahigherrequirementonstudents’vocabulary.Itneedsstudentstograspabout3300wordsandatleast400-500relatedphrasesandidioms.Ontheotherhand,ithasahighrequirementontheusageofthewordsandthesephrases.[4]Itiscommontohearthecomplaintsfromthestudentsthatitisdifficulttolearnthenewwords,andeasytoforgetthewordstheymemorized.Insuchcase,moreattentionshouldbepaidtothecurrentvocabularylearningsituationoftheseniorstudents.WenQiufangandWangLifei’statisticsshows70%ofthevocabularylearningresearchesareaboutthecollegestudents,andtheseniorstudents’vocabularylearninghasgotlessattention.[5]ItisuniversalthattheEnglishteachingachievementsinruralseniorschoolsarefewer.[6]Atpresentalargepopulationofstudentscomeformruralareas.AsanimportantpartofEnglishlearning,inruralseniorstudents’vocabularylearningshouldbegivenmoreattentionto.Thereforethisinvestigationaimstoanalyzetheseniorstudents’currentvocabularylearningsituationinHanzhongruralareas.

2.Problem

Sincethereasonsthatarementionedintheintroductionpart,andinordertoreflecttherealcurrentsituationoftheruralseniorstudents’vocabularylearning,thisinvestigationmustbereasonable.Andthefollowingfourpartsaretherelatedinformationofthisinvestigation.ThequestionnaireaimstoinvestigatethreepartsofthecurrentvocabularylearningsituationoftheruralseniorstudentsinHanzhong.Theyarethevocabularylearningbeliefsthatthestudentshold;difficultiesonthevocabularylearningcontentthattheseniorstudentshave;thegeneralcurrentvocabularylearningstrategiesusingsituation.ThreeseniorhighschoolsontheedgeofthecityofHanzhongattendedthisinvestigation.TheyareLongjiangMiddleSchool,PuzhenMiddleschoolandWuxiangMiddleSchool.Thequestionnaireswerehandedintosomestudentswhoarestudyingintheseschoolsincluding57malesand43females.

3.ProblemAnalysis

Theresultsoftheinvestigationaredividedintothreeparts.Theyarecurrentsituationofruralseniorstudents’vocabularylearningbeliefs,currentsituationofruralseniorstudents’vocabularylearningstrategiesusing,andcurrentsituationofruralseniorstudents’vocabularylearningcontents.AndthispaperwilldiscussthecurrentsituationofruralseniorstudentsinHanzhong.

Currentsituationofvocabularylearningbeliefs

Thissurveymainlycoversthreepartsontheseniorstudents’vocabularylearningbeliefs;theyarethestudents’attentiontovocabularyintheirEnglishlearning;thestudents’motivationoflearningvocabulary;theseniorstudents’realizationontheimportanceofvocabularylearningstrategies.

Realizationoftheimportanceofthevocabularylearning

Table1:

Theimportanceofvocabularylearning

ContentoftheChoices

Percentage

Extremelyimportant

58%

Somewhatimportant

25%

Notveryimportant

15%

Notimportant

2%

Fromtable1,itiscanbeclearlyseenthat58%ofthestudentsthinkvocabularylearningisveryimportantforEnglishstudy.25%ofthestudentsthinkvocabularylearningisimportantinsomeway.ButthereisstillonequarterofthestudentsthinkvocabularyisnotveryimportantinEnglishlearning.Andamongthestudentsundertheinvestigation,thereareonlytwostudentshavenotrealizedtheimportanceofthevocabularylearning.ThetableshowsthatmostoftheseniorstudentsinHanzhonghaverealizedtheimportanceofvocabularylearninginEnglishstudy.Generallyspeaking,majorityoftheseniorstudentsmaypaymoreattentiontovocabularylearning.

Possessionofthecorrectvocabularylearningmotivation

Table2:

Purposeofvocabularylearning

ContentoftheChoices

Percentage

Topasstheexam

36%

Tocommunicate

56%

Toknowwesternculture

8%

Itisclearlytoseethat36%ofthestudentsagreethattolearnvocabularyistopasstheexaminations.56%ofthestudentsagreetoexpressandcommunicate.Amongthestudents,thereare8%ofthestudentsgoalongwithtolearnvocabularyistoknowmoreaboutwesternculture.Fromtable2,itiscanbeseethatmostoftheseniorstudentshaveunderstandthatvocabularyisnotusedtopasstheexaminations,butakindofmeantohelpthemtocommunicatewithothersandtohelpthemtolearnmore.Howevertherearestill36%ofthestudentskeepthebeliefsthattolearnvocabularyisgoodforthemtopasstheexamination.Ingeneral,mostoftheseniorstudentshavecorrectandpositivemotivationofEnglishvocabularylearning.

Realizationofthenecessityofvocabularylearningstrategies

Table3:

Importanceofvocabularylearning

ContentoftheChoices

Percentage

Extremelyimportant

39%

Somewhatimportant

32%

Notveryimportant

24%

Notimportant

5%

Thetableshowsthat39%ofthestudentsthinkvocabularylearningstrategyusingisextremelyimportantinEnglishstudy.32%ofthestudentsagreethatvocabularylearningstrategyisfairlyimportantinthecourseofvocabularylearning.24%ofthestudentshavenotpaidenoughattentiontothestrategiesusedforvocabularylearning.And5%ofthestudentshavenoideaofusingstrategiestohelpthemtolearnEnglisheffectively.

Ingeneral,theseniorstudentsinHanzhongruralareashavealreadychangedtheirvocabularylearningbeliefsandlearningpurpose.Theyhaverealizedtheimportanceofvocabularylearningandlearningstrategy.

Currentsituationofvocabularylearningstrategiesusing

Fortheseniorstudents,theirscopesofagesaremainlyfromsixteentoeighteen.Afteratleastthreeyears’Englishlearning,theycangraspsomebasiclearningstrategiesandusethesebasicstrategiesintheircourseofEnglishlearning.Fromthesurveyitisclearthattheseniorstudents’vocabularylearningbeliefsaregoodfortheirEnglishstudy.Andsincetheyhavealreadyrealizedthenecessityofvocabularylearningstrategies,cantheseniorstudentsputtheEnglishlearningstrategiesintotheirvocabularylearning?

Currentsituationofcognitivestrategyuse

Table4:

Cognitivestrategy

Strategies

Waysofmemorizingwords

Percentage

Cognitivestrategy

Rotememory

47%

Userulesofspellingandwordstructure

34%

Association

24%

Classification

5%

Accordingtothechoicesandthepercentagestatistics,itisclearthatmostoftheseniorstudentsuserotememorystrategiesontheirEnglishvocabulary.Nearlyhalfofthestudentsmemorizethewordsbyrecitingorcopyingthewordsagainandagain.

Fortheseniorstudents,theyshouldtrytousetherulesofthespellingandtheword-formationsaccordingtotherequirementoftheEnglishcurricularstandard.Only34%ofthestudentswillmakeuseofthespellingrulesortheword-formationrulestohelpthemmemorizingthewords.

Theseniorstudentsshouldputassociationstrategyintousetomemorizewords.ButtheseniorstudentsinHanzhonghavenotputitintousewidely.Inthefieldofcognitivestrategy,classificationheremeanstoclassifythewordsaccor