Study on the Effectiveness of Vocabulary Teaching in Senior High School
Vocabulary is the basis of high school English learning, and the effectiveness of teachers’ English vocabulary teaching has a direct impact on students’ vocabulary learning efficiency. This paper studies the effectiveness of high school English vocabulary teaching by using the questionnaire method, and mainly answers the following three questions: (1) What’s the status quo of the effectiveness of high school English vocabulary teaching? (2) What problems that have existed in English vocabulary teaching of senior high school ? (3) What are the suggestions for improving the effectiveness of high school English vocabulary teaching? In order to solve the above problems, the author carried out a study in a senior high school in Guang’an City. The participants are from a senior high school in Guang’an, two classes of students, a total of 100. Through the survey, it is found that there are more or less the following problems in high school English vocabulary teaching: (1) teachers do not pay enough attention to vocabulary teaching; (2) Students’ interest in English vocabulary learning is not high; (3) The presentation and teaching methods of teachers’ vocabulary teaching are single; (4) Students lack a vocabulary review and consolidation plan; (5) Students have fewer sources of vocabulary learning. At the same time, in order to improve the effectiveness of high school English vocabulary learning teaching, the following suggestions are put forward: (1) Use English discourse to promote high school English vocabulary teaching; (2) Classify vocabulary and learn vocabulary in blocks; (3) Broaden the sources of vocabulary teaching and enrich students’ vocabulary; (4) Make a reasonable review plan and consolidate memory in time; (4) Adopt multi-mode teaching and innovate the presentation way of vocabulary teaching.
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