英语是现在世界广泛使用的语言,社会生活的信息化和经济的全球化,使英语的重要性日益突出,其重要地位越来越得到大家的共识。在学习英语的过程中词汇的学习是最困难的。因此扩大词汇量是掌握并学好一门语言最基本的条件。英语语言词汇量有多大?精确统计非常困难,西方有的学者估计起码有300万个。这样庞大的外语词汇确实是外语学习的一道门槛,学生应该努力跨过这道门槛,而不是开这道门槛。在外 English is the language widely used in the world today. The informationization of social life and the globalization of economy have made English a more and more important one, and its importance has gained more and more people’s consensus. In the process of learning English vocabulary learning is the most difficult. Therefore, to expand the vocabulary is to master and learn a language the most basic conditions. How big is the English vocabulary? Accurate statistics are very difficult. Some Western scholars estimate that there are at least 3 million. Such a large foreign language vocabulary is indeed a threshold for foreign language learning, students should strive to cross this threshold, rather than to open this threshold. outer