认知语言学认为,原型理论是认知语言学的纲领性文件,对外语教学尤其是词汇教学有一定的指导价值。本文从介绍原型范畴理论入手,探讨了词汇教学中应重视基本范畴词、词义原型和形音原型的教授,旨在提高学生学习热情,以利于英语词汇学习。 Cognitive linguistics argues that the prototype theory is a programmatic document of cognitive linguistics and has certain guiding value for foreign language teaching, especially for vocabulary teaching. This article starts with the introduction of prototype category theory, and probes into the professors who should pay attention to basic category words, sense of meaning prototypes and phonetic prototypes in vocabulary teaching so as to enhance students’ enthusiasm in learning so as to facilitate English vocabulary learning.