词汇教学是中职学校英语教学的基础,也是教学的重点和难点。本文主要从认知语言学中的范畴理论、隐喻理论等角度来阐述认知语言学对中职学校英语词汇教学的启示。英国语言学家Wilkins.D.A曾过:“没有语法,不能传递很多信息;没有词汇,什么也传递不了”。由此可见,词汇在语言学习中极其重要。然而,职业中等学校的学生在英语学习中英语基础差、底子薄,或者就算是记住了,也不能准确使用它们。2007年9 Vocabulary teaching is the basis of English teaching in vocational schools, but also the teaching of the key and difficult. This article mainly expounds the enlightenment of cognitive linguistics on English vocabulary teaching in secondary vocational schools from the perspectives of category theory and metaphor theory in cognitive linguistics. British linguist Wilkins.D.A has been: “There is no grammar, can not pass a lot of information; no vocabulary, nothing can not pass ”. This shows that vocabulary is extremely important in language learning. However, students in vocational secondary schools can not use English accurately in English learning because they have weak foundation or even remember it. 2007 9