词汇教学中被忽视的一面在过去的十年中,ELT 领域发展的一个主要方面是词汇教学再次引起人们的兴趣。在语法问题和语法教学占主导地位的1960至1980二十年间,这种由语法向词汇的总体转变,无疑是向正确方向迈出的一步。然而,词汇学习的一个特殊方面还没有引起人们的足够重视,这就是词汇的结合性能问题。“学生在学习新的词项时遇到的一个主要困难是了解什么是它们的搭配特征……”(Rudzkaet al 1981b:5)对外语学习者来说,遗憾的是,单词并不是自由地互相结合,而是存在着(不同程度地)同现制约(Allerton,1984),对此,学习者必须遵循。大多数教英语的外语教师(特别是那些 The Neglected Side in Vocabulary Teaching One of the major aspects of the development of ELT in the past decade has been the renewed interest in vocabulary teaching. This general shift from grammar to vocabulary in the 1960s and 1980s, in which grammar and grammar teaching were dominant, is undoubtedly a step in the right direction. However, a special aspect of lexical learning has not attracted enough attention. This is the problem of combining performance with vocabulary. “One of the major difficulties students face when learning new terms is knowing what they are all about ...” (Rudzka et al 1981b: 5) For foreign language learners, it is a pity that words are not free to each other But there is (to a lesser extent) co-occurrence constraints (Allerton, 1984), for which learners must follow. Most English-speaking foreign language teachers (especially those