How to do Vocabulary Teaching in Middle School 怎样教中学英语词汇.docx

1、How to do Vocabulary Teaching in Middle School 怎样教中学英语词汇How to do Vocabulary Teaching in Middle SchoolAbstract: Word is one of the three basic language units. It is essential to communication. Without vocabulary we can convey nothing, therefore, vocabulary teaching is an indispensable part of Englis

2、h curriculum. But some traditional vocabulary-teaching methods seem to isolate the words from the context or break away from the scientific rules. They cant help students to develop a language competence in the long run but cause them to lose interest in English. Middle school English teachers shoul

3、d pay attention it, since they are the premier ones who introduce students to the field of English .In this paper, I would provide six scientific vocabulary-teaching techniques. I think they could be valuable for middle school English teachers during their teaching process.Key words: technique, voca

4、bulary, context, competence 摘 要：单词是语言最基本的因素之一。它在人们的交流中起着很大的作用。如果没有词汇我们则完全无法表达任何东西。因此，词汇教学是英语教学中不可缺少的一部分。一些中学英语教师在讲授词汇时，把词汇从上下文中脱离出来，忽略了科学的学习规律；从长远来看，这种传统的词汇教学方法不仅不利于学生形成和提高英语语言能力，反而会导致他们对英语失去兴趣。作为中学生学习英语的启蒙老师，中学英语教师在教学中需注意这些。在我的论文中，我提供了6种比较科学的词汇教学方法。我希望这几种方法对中学英语教师会有一定的参考价值。关键词:教学方法；词汇；语境；语言能力Conten

5、tsAbstractiContentsiiiIntroduction11 The importance of vocabulary teaching in middle school21.1 The importance of word21.2 The importance of vocabulary teaching in English curriculum22. The vocabulary teaching methods of middle school32.1 Three distinguishing features of English vocabulary32.2 The d

6、rawbacks of several traditional vocabulary teaching methods52.3 Six scientific methods of teaching vocabulary102.4 The useful of scientific methods in vocabulary teaching 153. The importance of keeping student interested and encouraged in learning vocabulary163.1 The importance of keeping student in

7、terested in learning vocabulary173.2 The importance of encourage student to learning vocabulary17Conclusion18Bibliography19Acknowledgements20IntroductionIn China, English teachers have sometimes tended to overlook the importance of lexical system. This is especially obvious in the middle school. Thi

8、s phenomenon might have resulted from the fact that linguists have worked out a perfect equivalent Chinese vocabulary system to English vocabulary system, so that teachers and students can more easily deal with the vocabulary than with the grammar and sound of English which are quite different from

9、the Chinese grammar and sound system. Lexical items may also have appeared to be of secondary importance because they have sometimes been seen as that which is used to “flesh out” the structure or to exemplify parts of the sound system. However, without lexicon the major meaning-caring element in la

10、nguage is missing. Therefore, the acquisition of vocabulary is an integral part of English teaching. On the other hand, there are teachers who have tended to overemphasize the learning of words in the lengthy vocabulary lists. The solution is to seek scientific techniques of vocabulary teaching, so,

11、 in the following part, I will discuss three topics: I. The importance of vocabulary teaching in middle school. II: The vocabulary teaching methods of middle school. III The useful of scientific techniques of vocabulary teaching.1 The important of vocabulary teaching in middle school 1.1 The importa

12、nce of word Word is one of the three basic language units (sound. word. Grammar ). It is essential to communication. One of the famous linguists wilkins once said that,” without grammar very little can be conveyed, without vocabulary nothing can be conveyed .”(wilkins .ENGLISH STUDY, Foreign languag

13、e study Institute,1987).1.2 The importance of vocabulary teaching in English curriculum Little children learn to speak in isolated words and then in chains of nouns and verbs. A child who says “Mum bye-bye bike” is easily understood by English-speaking adult. Students who are immersed into a new lin

14、guistic settling tend to pick up vocabulary first, and then gradually develop a more accurate, structural framework in which to use these words. And they must continually be learning words as they learn structures and as they practice the sound system. Therefore, vocabulary teaching is an important

15、part of English lessons in middle school, and an important task for the teachers. Weather a middle school English teacher can follow scientific methods to teach vocabulary or not directly bring good or bad influence toward the students. If his methods are suitable for the students and beneficial for them in the long run, he could arouse their interest on English and help them to develop a solid foundation of language acquisition ability; whereas if he fails to do so, it might result in the students diffidence to