普通本科院校英语专业新生词汇学习策略调查

本文通过问卷调查和词汇测试成绩,运用定量分析的方法,研究了普通本科院校英语专业新生词汇学习策略的使用特点以及学习策略与词汇测试成绩之间的相关性。结果表明:学生不同程度地运用各种策略来学习英语词汇;大部分词汇学习策略与词汇测试成绩之间存在一定的相关性,自我评估、上下文、构词法、猜测、视觉编码、听觉编码、意义编码等为比较有效的策略;优生比差生更善于运用各种词汇学习策略。该项研究对于英语专业新生的词汇教学活动具有一定的启示作用。

Research into Vocabulary Learning Strategies of First-year English Majors in Local Universities

This paper reports an empirical study on various kinds of vocabulary learning strategies employed by the Chinese-speaking learners of English.The subjects are the first-year English majors from a local university in China,and the instruments adopted include a questionnaire and a vocabulary test.Detailed analysis of quantitative data yields the findings as follows: 1)The English majors tend to adopt a variety of vocabulary learning strategies;2) Subjects at different proficiency levels are found to be significantly different from each other in some vocabulary learning strategies;3) There exists a certain correlation between vocabulary learning strategies and vocabulary size.