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It is widely accepted that mastery of vocabulary is an essential component of second language acquisition and one can not learn a language without vocabulary. Second in china the teaching and learning of English vocabulary does not lead to the expected result, and both teachers and learners feel discouraged. More and more teachers and educators have realized that for vocabulary learning it is far from enough to completely rely on teachers’ instruction in class, and students also should share their responsibilities.
Key words: vocabulary; enlarge; memory; vocabulary learning;
1 Introduction
It is widely accepted that mastery of vocabulary is an essential component of second language acquisition and one can not learn a language without vocabulary. However, in china the teaching and learning of English vocabulary does not lead to the expected results, and both teachers and learners feel discouraged. For teachers they put a lot of time in vocabulary teaching but with low outcomes .For learners they feel that many of their difficulties in receptive and productive English use result from an inadequacy of vocabulary .“Without phonetics and communicate a little information; without vocabulary, you can do nothing ’’.
2 Prerequisite for enlarging vocabulary
In the course of language, a teacher often discovers some word, dictate to them in the last lesson. As a consequence, the teacher blames them for their lack of hard work. The students feel wronged, saying that they have learnt the new word by heart, but they often fail to recall it, somehow. Meanwhile, students often complain their “poor memory’’. How to avoid the common phenomenon in English learning? What we need is a good memory. As you know, no one is born a talent of good memory. As Parcel Karl, French mathematician, put it, “Memory is essential of all mental work’’.
2.1 The attitude toward time
If you really want to learn English, you have to make the best use of your time. After all, opportunity knocks but once. Some students have realized the importance of learning English even worked out a learning plane. However, they always regret they lost much time on other matters the day before. They always think there are so many to do this day----too much homework, friends’ visit, or low spirits etc. In a word, they can not find time to study. They often say “leave it for tomorrow’’. However, will you surely be more relaxing “tomorrow” than “today”, or maybe you will be busier “tomorrow” than “today”. As Franklin put it, “the worth of today is as twice as tomorrow.” Moreover, as a Chinese student, you have not a real language environment to learn English. So each day you have to spend part of your time on it. Never “go fishing for three days and dry the next for two” as a Chinese saying goes. Even though it is difficult you have to preserve with it. After months of hard work, your perseverance will finally be reward.
2.2 Getting enough rest
It is necessary to alternate learning with rest. During the break, students may take a walk on the campus, have a chat with each other, hum a tune etc. after class, they may play games, sing a song, dance to music, have some musical instrument practice. This is called active rest. It not only builds you up, but rests your brain and develops your specialty. On the other hand, sleep is the most important rest. It is said that an adult needs at least seven – to eight—hour sleep a day. If one often stays up for learning or amusements, he must feel fatigue and weak, out of sorts, emotional imbalance, falling immunity or even disease. In a word, a good rest males your brain renew its normal function, keep you health as well. “All work and no play makes jack a dull boy”, as a saying goes.
3 The technique of memorizing vocabulary
3.1 Alphabetic writing
Since the pronunciation of most English words is regular, to memorize a word according to its pronunciation has a sound effect. Never try to remember a word letter by letter. For the word “hotel”, for instance, some students just repeat “hotel” again and again, unable to pronounce [hotel] correctly. In such a way to learn English, maybe they would pass some English examination, but cannot really master the language nevertheless.
3.2 Never use Chinese notation
Some students, especially beginners, prefer to make full use of shortcut. i.e. they tend to remember the word “morning” by means of “mo nin (摸您)”，goodbye means of “guo dong bei (果凍杯)”，pen by means of “pen(盆)” and so on. In this way, they are not able to make good process in English despite their diligence.
4 Conclusion
For an English learner, one of the difficulties is how to remember the learned vocabularies. By concluding the reasons of such thing, this article mainly, introduces the problems the learners should pay attention to and the means and ways they had better use in order to encourage the learners and enlarge their vocabularies.
Bibliography
Henricksen. B. 1999, Three dimensions on vocabulary development, studies in second language acquisition
Wilkins. 2001. English coaching paper
Key words: vocabulary; enlarge; memory; vocabulary learning;
1 Introduction
It is widely accepted that mastery of vocabulary is an essential component of second language acquisition and one can not learn a language without vocabulary. However, in china the teaching and learning of English vocabulary does not lead to the expected results, and both teachers and learners feel discouraged. For teachers they put a lot of time in vocabulary teaching but with low outcomes .For learners they feel that many of their difficulties in receptive and productive English use result from an inadequacy of vocabulary .“Without phonetics and communicate a little information; without vocabulary, you can do nothing ’’.
2 Prerequisite for enlarging vocabulary
In the course of language, a teacher often discovers some word, dictate to them in the last lesson. As a consequence, the teacher blames them for their lack of hard work. The students feel wronged, saying that they have learnt the new word by heart, but they often fail to recall it, somehow. Meanwhile, students often complain their “poor memory’’. How to avoid the common phenomenon in English learning? What we need is a good memory. As you know, no one is born a talent of good memory. As Parcel Karl, French mathematician, put it, “Memory is essential of all mental work’’.
2.1 The attitude toward time
If you really want to learn English, you have to make the best use of your time. After all, opportunity knocks but once. Some students have realized the importance of learning English even worked out a learning plane. However, they always regret they lost much time on other matters the day before. They always think there are so many to do this day----too much homework, friends’ visit, or low spirits etc. In a word, they can not find time to study. They often say “leave it for tomorrow’’. However, will you surely be more relaxing “tomorrow” than “today”, or maybe you will be busier “tomorrow” than “today”. As Franklin put it, “the worth of today is as twice as tomorrow.” Moreover, as a Chinese student, you have not a real language environment to learn English. So each day you have to spend part of your time on it. Never “go fishing for three days and dry the next for two” as a Chinese saying goes. Even though it is difficult you have to preserve with it. After months of hard work, your perseverance will finally be reward.
2.2 Getting enough rest
It is necessary to alternate learning with rest. During the break, students may take a walk on the campus, have a chat with each other, hum a tune etc. after class, they may play games, sing a song, dance to music, have some musical instrument practice. This is called active rest. It not only builds you up, but rests your brain and develops your specialty. On the other hand, sleep is the most important rest. It is said that an adult needs at least seven – to eight—hour sleep a day. If one often stays up for learning or amusements, he must feel fatigue and weak, out of sorts, emotional imbalance, falling immunity or even disease. In a word, a good rest males your brain renew its normal function, keep you health as well. “All work and no play makes jack a dull boy”, as a saying goes.
3 The technique of memorizing vocabulary
3.1 Alphabetic writing
Since the pronunciation of most English words is regular, to memorize a word according to its pronunciation has a sound effect. Never try to remember a word letter by letter. For the word “hotel”, for instance, some students just repeat “hotel” again and again, unable to pronounce [hotel] correctly. In such a way to learn English, maybe they would pass some English examination, but cannot really master the language nevertheless.
3.2 Never use Chinese notation
Some students, especially beginners, prefer to make full use of shortcut. i.e. they tend to remember the word “morning” by means of “mo nin (摸您)”，goodbye means of “guo dong bei (果凍杯)”，pen by means of “pen(盆)” and so on. In this way, they are not able to make good process in English despite their diligence.
4 Conclusion
For an English learner, one of the difficulties is how to remember the learned vocabularies. By concluding the reasons of such thing, this article mainly, introduces the problems the learners should pay attention to and the means and ways they had better use in order to encourage the learners and enlarge their vocabularies.
Bibliography
Henricksen. B. 1999, Three dimensions on vocabulary development, studies in second language acquisition
Wilkins. 2001. English coaching paper