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1、TheEnglishvocabularyteachinginthemiddleschoolisanindispensablepartofEnglishcurriculum.JustasafamouslinguistWilkinssaid,“Withoutgrammarverylittlecanbeconveyed,withoutvocabularynothingcanbeconveyed.”1.IntroductionVocabularyisbasictolanguagelearning.Itwouldbeimpossibletolearnalanguagewithoutle
2、arningvocabulary.Englishwordsarethemostimportantelementsinlinguisticstudy,justlikebricksinbuildingahouse.“Ifyouhavenobricks,howcanyousetupahouse?Forexample,whenaChinesegoestoEnglandforthefirsttime,ifheknowswordsas“bus”,“food”,“money”,hecanconveymessages.However,evenwithagoodknowledgeofthegr
3、ammarofthelanguage,butnoknowledgeofthevocabulary,heorshewouldnotbeabletodothis.”[1]p30 Asaresult,vocabularyteachingturnstobeoneofthemostimportantpartsofteachingtoforeignlanguageteachers.IfanEnglishteacherisabletoteachvocabularyinaninterestingandefficientmannerbyusingvariousmethods,hisstuden
4、tswillreceivebenefitfromhim.Variousefficientwayswillhelpstudentsremembernewwordsandphrasesmorequicklyandmucheasier,andtherefore,studentscansavealotoftimewhichtheycanspendlearningmore.Ontheotherhand,differentandusefulmethodscanarousethestudents’interestsinlearningandhelpthemgraspthetextbette
5、r.ButhowcanweteachEnglishvocabularyefficiently?ThisisaquestionfacedbyallEnglishteachers.2.Teachingvocabularyinelementaryclasses2.1Possiblyeffectivemethods2.1.1ObjectteachingThismethodisgenerallyappliedtotheexplanationofthosewordsthatdefineobjects,explainactionsandexpressfeelingsoremotions.
6、 (1)Forexample,whenteachingsuchwordsas“classroom”,“boy”,“girl”,“book”,“pencil”,“window”,“door”,theresultwillbemuchbetteriftheteachersexplainthesewordsbyshowingthestudentspictures,modelsandobjects.Onereasonisthatthemeaningsofthesewordscaneasilybemadeclear.Windows,walls,desksanddoorsarething
7、sthatthestudentscanseewhiletheyarehearingtheEnglishwordsforthem.Furthermore,thingsintheclassroomcanalsobetouched.Thisisimportant,becausesuccessinlearningoftendependsonthenumberofsenseswhichareusedinthelearningprocess.[3]p7Whenstudentscantouchsomethingina