英语论文：如何掌握词汇

Awell-balancedlanguagecourseshouldcontainfourstrandsthatoccupyroughlyequalmaountsoftime.Thesefourstrandsareasfollows:

Learningfrommeaning-focusedinput.Thisinvolveslearningandestablishinglanguageitemsthroughlisteningandreading.Thelearnigninthisstrandislargelyincidentallearningbecausethelearners#39;mainfocusofattentionisonthecontentofwhattheyarelisteningtoorreading.

Learningfrommeaning-focusedoutput.Thisinvolveslearningorestablishinglanguageitemsthroughspeakingorwriting,andlikethemeaning-focusedinputstrandthelearningislargelyincidental.

Language-focusedlearning.Thisstrandinvolvesdeliberatelearningwhichisfocusedonlanguageitems.Itincludesstudyingvocabularyandgrammar,learningandpractisingnewsounds,andstudyingdiscoursefeatures.Thisstrandinvolvesstudyofthelanguagesystem.

Developingfluency.Thisstrandinvolvesnounknownlanguageitems,andcoversthefourskillsoflistening,speaking,readingandwriting.Inthisstrandlearnerspractisemakingthebestuseofwhatisalreadyknown.

Thesefourstrandsallprovideopportunitiesforvocabularylearning.

HowwouldImakevocabularyapartofmycourse?Therearenumerousoptionsforfocussingonvocabularyasapartofalanguageproficiencycourse.Theremaybespecificlessonsdevotedtovocabularydevelopment,orthefocusonvocabularymaybeintegratedwithetheskillsoflistening,speaking,readingandwriting.Alternatively,vocabularymaybejustdealtwithasitoccurs,butisdealtwithinaprincipledway.ThefollowingtaskgetsyoutoreflectonhowIwoulddealwithvocabularyinmylesson.

PLANNINGTHEVOCABULARYCOMPONENTOFACOURSE

1.thinkaboutalanguagecourseIteachandanswerthequestions:

a.WillIhavespecialclassesonvocabularyorwillIdealwithvocabularyinthevariouspartsofthecourse?

b.WhatlevelofvocabularywillIbefocusingonthe1st1000words,thesecond1000words,academicwords,technicalvocabulary,lowfrequencywords?

c.Howlongismycourseandhowmanywordsdoyouexpectlearnerstolearnduringthecourse?

2.Whichstrandwouldbethehardestformetoimplementinmycourse?WhatsolutionscanIthinkoftoovercometheimplementationproblems?