Vocabulary Teaching in English Reading for Grade 5-6 Students

Vocabulary is an important component in English reading for Grade 5-6 students. Efficient vocabulary teaching is good for students to master this language better. In fact, inefficient and time-consuming phenomena in English vocabulary teaching are still obvious in primary schools. In order to make students acquire vocabulary effectively, some useful vocabulary teaching techniques will be introduced in this thesis to help teachers teach vocabulary effectively.     

A Survey and Suggestions on Students' Vocabulary Learning Strategiesin Senior High School

This paper is about a survey and suggestion on students’vocabulary learning strategies in senior high school.Vocabulary is one of the three elements of a language and the basic material of a language.So the vocabulary learning in English is especially important.In order to help the students to have a better understanding of the significance of language and lay a solid foundation for deep vocabulary acquisition,it is necessary for teachers to find effective ways to learn English vocabulary.So in this paper the author hopes to find what the vocabulary learning strategies the students have used through the survey and give more effective learning strategies according to the available English vocabulary learning strategies.     

The Vocabulary Reality from Elementary School to High School in China

The purpose of this research is to examine how large English language vocabulary is used in elementary, middle and high schools in China in order to plan for teaching how much English vocabulary colleg...     

Attempt to improve Vocabulary Teaching for Higher Vocational College Students

Vocabulary is the building material of language,and vocabulary study is therefore one of the most important aspects in any language learning.It is a key point to improve English learning through paying more attention to vocabulary acquisition.However,vocabulary teaching is one aspect of language teaching that has not been given enough attention in China.Therefore,some issues in vocabulary teaching and learning in higher vocational colleges are being addressed at present,which are worthy of our further consideration.     

An Analysis on Teaching College English Vocabulary——From an Etymological Perspective

Language and culture have influenced each other. They cannot be separated as isolated one. Culture finds a better representation through language use. Language is an indispensible carrier of culture. Many words have their origins in religion, mythology stories and literary works. Looking at English vocabulary from an etymological perspective is a good way to go in teaching college English vocabulary. This paper gives a brief introduction about the characteristics of English vocabulary and some advantages of teaching vocabulary from an etymological perspective, also, suggestions in using etymological perspective to teach college English vocabulary.     

How to Enlarge the Students’ Vocabulary:in English Learning

Vocabulary is a very important element in English learning.Without a large vocabulary,no one can reach a high English level.However,it is very difficult to enlarge vocabulary.In fact there are many methods to enlarge vocabulary.     

The Influence of Contexts on Vocabulary Testing

In vocabulary testing,whether to adopt context is a heat-debated topic.In the article,an experiment is designed to investigate what is the effect of zero context and sentence context on the vocabulary testing?And how do the different kinds of context in vocabulary affect the subjects’performance?The experimental result demonstrates that sentence do play an important role in helping text-takers to figure out the correct meaning or target words.     

Influence of contexts on vocabulary testing

In vocabulary testing, whether to adopt context is a heat-debated topic. In the article, an experiment is designed to investigate what is the effect of zero context and sentence context on the vocabulary testing？ And how do the different kinds of context in vocabulary affect the subjects＇ performance？ The experimental result demonstrates that sentence plays an important role in helping text-takers to figure out the correct meaning or target words.     

Games in Vocabulary Teaching

Vocabulary acquisition is increasingly viewed as crucial to language acquisition.However,learning vocabulary is often perceived as a tedious and laborious process.This leaves us teachers a big problem of how to teach vocabulary effectively.This paper will answer the question.The paper first discusses the scope of the definition of "game",and then goes to the value of games in vocabulary teaching.In the third part,the author lists some useful games for vocabulary teaching and explores the response from the students.The fourth part illustrates the problems encountered in vocabulary teaching.The final part of this paper is the conclusion.     

A Review of Quantitative and Qualitative Studies in Vocabulary Assessment

Since 1980s,articles and works about vocabulary test have piled up one after another,but the methods of testing vocabulary effectively are of widespread controversy.There are two traditional methods in testing vocabulary:quantitative method and qualitative method.While quantitative research sets out from receptive vocabulary size and productive vocabulary size,qualitative research gives priorities to testing vocabulary knowledge in depth.After thirty years of study,achievements have been made in three aspects:the comparative maturity of quantitative research;the steady development of qualitative research and the growing popularity of comprehensive research.Despite the fact that current studies are limited in certain aspects,the trend in vocabulary testing is that context-dependent test are gradually taking place of context-independent test and corpus is widely applied in vocabulary test.     

Principles and Methods of Instructing Culture in English Majors' Vocabulary Teaching

The precondition of understanding the vocabulary of a language well is mastering the culture of that language.In China,vocabulary teaching has long been regarded as the core and the most difficult part in English teaching by the majority of English teachers.With the increasing cultural exchanges between China and the West and a better understanding of the importance of vocabulary teaching in academic circles,more and more scholars and English teachers have realized the necessity of instructing culture in vocabulary teaching.In order to improve English teaching,The article combines the advantages of instructing culture in English vocabulary teaching to put forwards its principles and methods.     

Discussion on English Vocabulary Teaching in Higher Vocational College

Mastering vocabulary is one of the key factors for learning a language. Therefore, how to teach and help students acquire vocabulary is worth researching for every English teacher. This paper mainly provides some effective ways of teaching vocabulary and discusses how to implement these methods in higher vocational English teaching.     

Cognitive Metaphor and English Vocabulary Learning

English plays an essential and significant role in our life. How to study English well has become a public concern. English vocabulary is of great significance in English learning. Metaphor is not only a language phenomenon but also a way of thinking and cognition. As a link between cognition and language, metaphor plays an indispensable role in English vocabulary learning. By emphasizing the effects of cognitive metaphor on English vocabulary learning, the paper aims to help English learners improve vocabulary learning strategies.     

Vocabulary Learning Under New Curriculum——Grade Nine student in a Junior high school

1.Introduction This thesis focuses on the real situation of vocabulary learning in a Junior high school,located in countryside.First,this thesis will review some research conclusions on vocabulary learning.Then the author tries to explore the real situation of vocabulary learning in the high school,by analyzing the data collected from the questionnaire done by Grade Nine students.     

Using Games for Vocabulary Teaching and Learning

Vocabulary acquisition is increasingly viewed as crucial to language acquisition.Meanwhile,learning vocabulary is often perceived as a tedious and laborious process.Chinese students usually feel bored in vocabulary lessons because they have not changed their learning habits,such as writing word on paper,trying to learn by heart.To help students find vocabulary lessons more interesting,we can use games.This paper analyses the traditional method of teaching vocabulary is not effective,whereas there are some advantages of using games,such as,games bring in fun,games are motivating and create context for language use and then gives two examples of applying games in my vocabulary teaching.Students prefer games and puzzles.Games motivate and entertain students but also help them memorize and recall the material easily.The conclusion is that learning vocabulary through the games is an effective and interesting means which should be used in any classrooms.     

Application of Error Analysis in English Vocabulary Teaching

Vocabulary is an indispensable part of language and is of vital importance for second language learners. Students make form, collocation and ambiguous errors in English vocabulary acquisition. This thesis attempts to analyze errors in students’ English vocabulary acquisition based on error analysis, give the reasons and further put up some teaching approaches to lessen or avoid errors.     

The Lexical Approach and College English Teaching in China

Traditionally,language is considered to be a grammar vocabulary dichotomy system,and grammar and vocabulary seem to be independent of each other.This deep-rooted notion is particularly prevalent in Chinese English teaching and learning.Michael Lewis,the author of the Lexical Approach challenged the standard view of dividing language teaching into grammar and vocabulary.He believes that language is grammaticalised lexis,not lexicalized grammar,and lexis is the core of language learning while grammar is subordinate to it.This paper intends to explore its theoretical foundations and emphasize the great significance of the Lexical Approach to college English teaching in China.     

The Vocabulary Reality from Elementary School to High School in China

The purpose of this research is to examine how large English language vocabulary is used in elementary,middle and high schools in China in order to plan for teaching how much English vocabulary college students learn in the first two years to develop general English ability.One corpus is used to examine how many high-frequency words are included in elementary,middle and high school English vocabulary and Vocabprofile and Text Lex Compare of on-line tool-http://www.lextutor.ca/are used to.There are three interesting points arising from the analysis of the three word lists.First,most of the words consisted of basic-level words.Second,from analysis of the degrees of word repetition,students only learn 2208 new words and there are1812 repeated words in the three stages.Third,from analysis of how much coverage of the three vocabulary families each of the three base lists provide,99.9%of the running words are in base word list one,two and three.Based on these viewpoints,basic words should be identified scientifically and educationally for Chinese learners of English.     

The Application of Mind Map in Junior English Vocabulary Teaching

Almost every English learners is impacted and harassed by word memory in different degrees.However,the traditional rote memorization that is commonly used by majority of students can exacerbate the problem.It is believed that Mind Map may contribute to enhancing the efficiency of vocabulary learning and enlarging the capacity of words.Therefore,Mind Map has received extensive attention in English vocabulary teaching for the recent decades.Mind Map is conducive to motivating student’s interest,enhancing students’memory and augmenting vocabulary learning efficiency.     

Reflection on College English Vocabulary Teaching from Non-linguistic Context Perspective

Vocabulary understanding is very important in English study; however, there exist some problems in the present college English vocabulary teaching, so it is necessary to propose some suggestions for it from the non-linguistic context perspectives to improve the students’vocabulary capacity. Based on the three non-linguistic contexts (situational context, cultural context and cognitive context), the passage suggests teachers pay much attention to the non-linguistic context while teaching.