Abstract
Vocabulary is an important part of foreign language acquisition and teaching. In this paper, the related researches of English vocabulary teaching and acquisition in the past three decades are reviewed from the following aspects: basic concepts of English vocabulary teaching and learning, research perspective, theory integration, strategy application, teaching tools and problem reflection. The lack of integration with China's teaching environment of the current researches is pointed out to be further studied.
Highlights
Linguist DA Wilkins [2] argues that "if there is no grammar, people cannot express a lot of things, but if without words, people cannot express anything." Lewis [3] thought that vocabulary is the central task of second or foreign language acquisition, that is, any language skills, such as listening, speaking, reading, writing and translation, cannot be divorced from the dependence on the vocabulary
Vocabulary acquisition and teaching is not easy, vocabulary teaching researcher Hague [4] said, "to learn any language, whether foreign language or mother tongue, vocabulary is the most difficult language components to deal with." vocabulary is an important part of individual foreign language acquisition and foreign language teaching, worthy of attention and further study
In order to focus on the direction of English teaching, excluding English For Specific Purposes, cultural, history and other topics, the author again searches terms to "English vocabulary teaching" and finds nearly 5090 papers in recent 30 years
Summary
Vocabulary is of great importance in language acquisition. English teaching expert Harmer [1] in his books mentioned that if the language structure is compared to the skeleton of language, the words are important organs, flesh and blood. A large number of vocabulary accumulation is essential, and the lack of vocabulary will seriously restrict the language level of learners. Linguist DA Wilkins [2] argues that "if there is no grammar, people cannot express a lot of things, but if without words, people cannot express anything." Lewis [3] thought that vocabulary is the central task of second or foreign language acquisition, that is, any language skills, such as listening, speaking, reading, writing and translation, cannot be divorced from the dependence on the vocabulary. Vocabulary acquisition and teaching is not easy, vocabulary teaching researcher Hague [4] said, "to learn any language, whether foreign language or mother tongue, vocabulary is the most difficult language components to deal with." vocabulary is an important part of individual foreign language acquisition and foreign language teaching, worthy of attention and further study
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