Abstract:As the important position of words in English teaching is approved by people gradually, domestic English teaching profession’s researches on English vocabulary teaching are developed. And more and more researchers become interested in the issue. Knowing a word entails much more than just knowing its meaning. Language acquisition is the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive, produce and use words to understand and communicate. Learning words incidentally through reading is an important way for language learners to expand their vocabulary. It is also an extensively researched topic in the field of language acquisition. Vocabulary plays a very important role when English majors study English. This dissertation makes a research on incidental vocabulary acquisition and introduces a great deal of methods to expand vocabulary. The dissertation applies the methods of incidental vocabulary acquisition to reading.

Key words: English majors; English vocabulary;incidental vocabulary acquisition

摘要:随着词汇在英语教学中的重要地位逐渐得到人们的认可，国内英语教学界对英语词汇教学的研究也逐渐发展起来，越来越多的研究者对这一问题感兴趣。本文作者通过了解词汇在英语学习中的重要地位以及研究英语专业学生在词汇学习时所遇到的困境以及学习词汇的方法——有意学习和词汇附带习得，从而引起学生注意到词汇附带习得在英语学习中的重要性。作者通过在词汇情境中学习词汇和实验证明的方式，将词汇附带习得运用到英语阅读中。希望本文的研究结果能为英语学习者的词汇学习提供启发和帮助。

关键词：英语专业学生；英语词汇；词汇附带习得