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1、11. Introduction1.1 Importance of Vocabulary TeachingAs widely known, language learning involves three parts: pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar. Vocabulary, as one of three components, is essential and important to peoples communication and language learning. One of the famous linguists Wilkins（
2、1987 ）once said that:“without grammar, very little can be conveyed, without vocabulary, nothing can be conveyed. ”(Zhang Ping 2006，21) To some degree, vocabulary is the ligament for people to communicate with each other. Without enough words, one cant communicate with others, no matter how wonderful
3、 his grammar and pronunciation are. Therefore, acquiring adequate vocabulary is of critical importance to language learners. It is clear that without words, language learning will turn out to be a castle in the air. So the quantity and the accuracy of vocabulary grasped by students are one of the st
4、andards that is used to measure ones level of language, the teacher have to pay much attention to vocabulary teaching, especially to its strategy in rural junior middle schools.Thus, vocabulary teaching should be considered as one indispensable part of English lessons in middle schools and an import
5、ant task for teachers to fulfill. Usually, what teachers do have good or bad influence on students. If his methods are easily accepted by students, he could easily arouse their interest and help them to develop a solid foundation of language acquisition ability. Whereas if he fails to do so, it migh
6、t bring a heavy blow to students confidence and might cause them to disgust English.1.2 Three Distinguished Features of English VocabularyEnglish words are quite different from Chinese characters, the former is a spelling system while the later is a stroke system. English words have three distinguis
7、hed features: Firstly, the pronunciation of each word is corresponded to its spelling. Secondly, English words often have more than one meaning. When we come across a word, try to guess its meaning from the context in which it is used. Thirdly, English words can change their shapes and their grammat
8、ical values, too. Students need to know facts about word formation and how to twist words to fit different grammatical contexts and how suffixes and prefixes work. Knowing the three distinguished characteristics of English vocabulary will help teachers to deliver vocabulary teaching.In china, especi
9、ally in rural junior middle schools, English teachers do not realize the importance of vocabulary teaching and three features of English vocabulary, so they do not emphasize too much on vocabulary and students are poor in learning.2Therefore, this paper aims to show some scientific methods of vocabu
10、lary teaching and learning. In the following parts, the author will discuss three topics:(1) investigation and analysis about current problems of vocabulary teaching and learning from rural junior middle schools; (2) put forward several advanced and scientific teaching and learning methods; (3) conc
11、lusions on English vocabulary teaching in rural junior middle schools.2. Investigations and AnalysisIn order to find out some main problems of vocabulary teaching and learning in rural junior middle schools, the author have made a questionnaire from students. By taking this investigation result from
12、 rural junior middle schools, we know 57% students think their teachers often teach isolated words which are listed in textbook, 80% students consider that their English teachers ignore the relationship between words and understanding of words, more than half students are lazy, more than 80% student
13、s fail to follow the memory and so on. In the light of this investigation, the author finds out problems existed in vocabulary teaching and learning, some drawbacks are listed as follow:2.1 Current Condition of Vocabulary Teaching and LearningFirstly, students dont think much of learning vocabulary.
14、 They think it will take them a long time to remember words, so just be able to read and write is enough. Though some students spend much time learning it, they dont have good learning effect. Among them, they remember words inflexibly without memorial ways. So the more quickly they learn, the more
15、quickly they forget. According to the questionnaire, we know 70% students have this phenomenon.Secondly, vocabulary teaching ways are very dull. A large number of teachers spend one and two lessons teaching vocabulary of each unit. They usually explain words and let students remember and recite them
16、 by themselves without relating to daily life. In class, teachers role is just an educator and information provider, students role is only listener, so they will easily feel tired and uninteresting. Therefore, they are sick of listening and poor in learning vocabulary.2.2 Main Problems of Vocabulary Teaching 2.2.1 Treating All Words EquallyFrom the investigation, 40% students could not tell important words from unimportant words. That is because some English teachers treat all vocab
