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1、Unit8TeachingVocabulary“Iflanguagestructuremakesuptheskeletonoflanguage,thenitisvocabularythatprovidesthevitalorgansandtheflesh.Anabilitytomanipulategrammaticalstructuredoesnothaveanypotentialforexpressingmeaningunlesswordsareused.”(Harmer,1991:153).Voc
2、abularyoftenformstheobstacletolanguagelearning.Thestudyofvocabularyisthusseenasthebasisforlanguageacquisition(Rivers,1983:125).Importantasitiscommonlyheldtobe,littleattentionhasbeenpaidtohowvocabularyinstructionshouldbeconducted.Formostlearners,thelearn
3、ingofvocabularyisrepetitionandmemory.Andformostteachers,vocabularyinstructionconsistsofmainlythepresentationofmeaning,structureandsoon.Actually,aswithothercontentoflanguageinstruction,vocabularyteachingalsoconsistsofpresentation,practice,application,pro
4、ductionandevaluation.Classroominstructionshouldbefocusedonthedevelopmentofvocabulary.I.Vocabularyinstruction:whereshoulditgo?1.Itcanbeconductedbeforelistening,speakingorreading;2.Itcanbeconductedafterlistening,speakingorreading;3.Itcanbeconductedintheco
5、urseoflistening,speakingorreading;4.Itcanbeisolated.II.Thecontentofvocabularyinstruction1.meaning:Whatmeaningconcernsisnotonlythatpresentedinthedictionary,butratherthatincontextanditsrelations.2.worduse:Asfarasworduseisconcerned,metaphor,idiom,collocati
6、on,styleandregistershouldallbeincludedinclassroominstruction3.wordinformation9Wordinformationconcernspartsofspeech,prefixesandsuffices,spellingandpronunciationandsoon.4.wordgrammar:Whenteachingnouns,itisnecessarytobeclearaboutwhetheritiscountableoruncou
7、ntable,whenitisaverb,itisnecessarytoknowitscomplementation,phrasalverbs,andsoon.Ifitsanadjectiveoradverb,itisimportanttoknowitspositioninthesentence.Andthiswecallwordgrammar.5.vocabularylearningstrategiesApartfromthemeaning,use,informationandgrammarofvo
8、cabulary,vocabularylearningstrategiesalsoconstituteanimportantpartofvocabularyinstruction.Bylearningstrategies,itmeansvocabularymemorystrategies,learningstrategiesandapplicationstrategies.Itshouldconstituteanimportantpartofclassr