Research On Vocabulary Teaching In The Classroom In TCFL From A Perspective Of Cognitive Psychology

Vocabulary is one of the most important parts of language, and it is also a difficult part of language teaching. In Teaching Chinese as Foreign Language (TCFL), vocabulary teaching is inefficient in the classroom. The unique characters of vocabulary system and the way of language teaching currently determined the high degree of difficulty of teach words on language class, the thesis is concerned with vocabulary classroom teaching in TCFL. studied the historical and current methods of vocabulary classroom teaching in TCFL from cognition and psychology aspect, promoted some tentative plan of teaching, and did some teaching experiments on the TCFL class, aims to find out some scientific way to improve the effectiveness of vocabulary teaching in practice.The thesis consists of eight chapters.Chapter1introduced the significance of research, its research goal and research method, and the previous study of vocabulary teaching both at home and abroad.Chapter2studied the process and the psychological elements of language learning, the mental lexicon of the language learners, and how they storage and pick up the words in their mind, summarized the arguments of previous study on vocabulary learning.Chapter3recalled the approaches and methods in language teaching in the history, summarized the development process of foreign language vocabulary teaching, TCFL belongs to foreign language teaching, so we also combed the history of TCFL, and found that vocabulary teaching has been underestimated for a long time.Chapter4researched the foundation of vocabulary teaching in TCFL, including the types of mandarin class, the curricula, the syllabus and the teaching materials. Different types of mandarin class have different students and classrooms, curriculum and syllabus decided what should be taught on the class, teaching materials are the basic elements of classroom teaching so that decided the target words in every lesson. These foundations instructed the teaching activities.Chapter5investigated the current situation of vocabulary teaching in TCFL on the classes. We chose different class to observe and inspect, and recorded the data from those classes, about the way of teachers used in classroom, and the reactions of the students when they were learning target words. According the data of survey and interview, we found that most of the teachers did not have the lesson plan about target words, and the students were in a negative status when teacher was teaching vocabulary. The explanation of target words was ineffective, words practice and exercises are rare in the classroom teaching, which is the reason of the failure of vocabulary teaching. Chapter6contains the education design of vocabulary teaching in TCFL according to the analysis of the data on the class, and analysis of the relationship between students and teacher in the class. We clarified the goals of vocabulary teaching in the classroom, and promoted some advises of the curricula, syllabus and teaching materials, and also listed the requirements to TCFL teachers on how to teach words effectively.Chapter7consisted in teaching experiments. We chose some mandarin class as experimental subjects, the students are different in age and Chinese language level, our experiments were aimed at different stages of vocabulary teaching, collected the data of classes and tests, found that the teaching results of experimental classes is better than the parallel classes, that demonstrated we should and we need to design the vocabulary teaching parts in TCFL classroom, and its practicability has been proved.Chapter8is the main conclusion of the thesis, and the directions of continuing studies.