Chapter OneIntroduction
1.1 Background
词汇的重要性永远不能被夸大。正如著名语言学家威尔金斯（1972，p.Ill）“没有语法很少可以传达;没有词汇没什么可以转达”。婴儿刚开始学习母语的词汇。英语学习者也开始学习词汇。英语词汇学习是英语学习的基础。这是英语学习成功的第一步。“学习者觉得很多他们的困难在接受生产力的语言词汇不足”的使用效果。（国家，2017年，第2页）词汇的大小会直接作用一个人的语言能力。如果没有足够的词汇量，通信受阻。然而，词汇的地位远在外语教学和学习的重要组成部分。词汇尚未支付其必要的重视，在英语课。词汇教学的方式，也不是那么令人满意，英语毕业论文，在目前形势下，据此可以预测的作用。“在许多ESL课程，即使在教师倾注了很多的词汇教学时间，结果一直令人失望。”（阿伦，2017年，第5）词汇教学不使它更容易为英语学习者现有的情况下，英语论文题目，学习新词汇。本初中词汇教学的方式并非有效或有效。词汇教学需要改变。
The importance of vocabulary can never be overstated. As the renowned linguistWilkins (1972, p.Ill) states "Without grammar very little can be conveyed; withoutvocabulary nothing can be conveyed". Babies begin to learn their mother tongue withvocabulary. English learners also begin with vocabulary learning. English vocabularylearning is the basis of English learning. It is the first step toward successful Englishlearning. "Learners feel that many of their difficulties in both receptive and productivelanguage use result from an inadequate vocabulary". (Nation, 2017, p.2) Vocabulary sizecan directly affect one's linguistic competence. Without enough vocabulary,communication is obstructed.However, the status of vocabulary is far from being a crucial part in foreign languageteaching and learning. Vocabulary has not been paid its requisite attention to in the Englishclass. The way of vocabulary teaching is not so satisfactory in the current situation and theeffects can be predicted accordingly. "In many ESL classes, even where teachers havedevoted much time to vocabulary teaching, the results have been disappointing." (Allen,2017, p,5) Vocabulary teaching does not make it easier for English learners to learn newvocabulary under the existing circumstance. The present way of vocabulary teaching injunior high school is not efficient or effective. Vocabulary teaching needs to be changed.
Since vocabulary is the inevitable part of English teaching, it is imperative thatEnglish teachers find an effective way to solve the problem. One essential way is to armour students with vocabulary learning strategies. Vocabulary learning strategies areindispensable to efficient and effective vocabulary learning. They can be used to help withvocabulary learning by facilitating students' efforts at learning English vocabulary and toexplore ways to learn target language more effectively. A further goal according to Cohen(2017) is to promote learner autonomy and learner self-direction by allowing students tochoose their own strategies and to do so spontaneously, without continued prompting fromthe language teacher.It is the high time that English teachers be aware of the significance of instructingvocabulary learning strategies so that vocabulary learning can become more effective andmore enjoyable for students. However, it is not an easy job to implement vocabularylearning strategy training in junior high schools due to the following causes:
1) Limited time
Since every term has its teaching plan and the busy teaching schedule does not allowthe teacher to spend much time on strategy training. For most junior high school Englishteachers, they have to finish two units within three weeks. English teachers nearly cannotafford the extra time and energy to do strategy training separately. So in terms of time, it isby no means easy to arrange the students to learn strategies.
2) Lack of systematic training in textboo
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