高中学生英语词汇学习策略使用情况的调查分析

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2、oundthatthereisacloserelationbetweenlanguagelearningstrategyuseandEnglishperformanceofEnglishasaforeignlanguage．Yetnocompleteagreementhasbeenreached．Whatismore，researchesconcerningtheSeniorHighSchoolsstudentsarefewandfarbetween(WenQiufang&WangLifei，200

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5、inChineseseniorschools．Concernedabouttheoverallpresentsituation，thisthesistriesmainlytofindouttheseoutcomesbydoingtheresearch：thesubjects’beliefstowardstheusageofvocabularylearningstrategies；thebasicsituationanddifferencebetweenfemaleandmalestudentsusi

6、ngvocabularyleamingstrategiesandthehigh—proficientandlow—proficientstudentsusingthevocabularylearningstrategies．1．2ThesignificanceoftheresearchVocabulary，whichisthebuildingmaterialofanylanguage，isofgreatimportancetopeople’Scommunicationaswellaslanguage

7、learning．Pickett(1988)pointedoutthatvocabularylearningalwaysseemedthekeytoanylanguage(Piekettl988，citedinLu2008)．AmongthethreeelementsofEnglishthatcontainsvocabularyphonology,andgrammar，vocabularyisthemostimportantpart．BritishlinguistD．A．Wilkins(1972)o

8、nceexpressedthatverylittlecanbeconveyedif万方数据therewasnogrammarandnothingcanbeconveyedifwasnovocabulary(Wilkinsl972)．Horwitzpointedouthisviewin1988thatthestudentswholearnEnglishasasecondlanguagefinishingthequestionnaireeitherfirmlyagreed