An Analysis of English Vocabulary Teaching Strategies in Rural Junior Middle School——Problems and Suggestions （浅析农村初中英语词汇教学的策略——问题及建议）.doc

1. Introduction 1.1 Importance of Vocabulary Teaching As widely known, language learning involves three parts: pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar. Vocabulary, as one of three components, is essential and important to people’s communication and language learning. One of the famous linguists Wilkins（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 can’t communicate with others, no matter how wonderful 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 standards that is used to measure one’s 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 important 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 might bring a heavy blow to students’ confidence and might cause them to disgust English. 1.2 Three Distinguished Features of English Vocabulary English words are quite different from Chinese characters, the former is a spelling system while the later is a stroke system. English words have three distinguished 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 m