Cultural Factors In Etymology VS Vocabulary Teaching Strategies

The paper studies seven strategies of vocabulary teaching implementation from the etymology perspective with the data from case studies. It aims at exploring the effective vocabulary teaching strategies with the connections of cultural factors in etymology for the benefit of helping the English learners to have a larger vocabulary and its related cultural knowledge.In light of the theories of the relationship among language, culture and etymology, the relationship between vocabulary teaching and culture, and the relationship between etymology and culture, the author presents seven vocabulary teaching strategies in this paper, they are: cultural instruction strategy, demonstration strategy, associative memory strategy, etymology explanation strategy, inducing contrastive strategy, communication strategy and translation strategy. A large number of students believe that one should pay attention to culture that go with a word when learning a new word.Based on the findings gained from the research through the questionnaire about cultural factors in etymology and vocabulary teaching strategies, the research aimed at exploring effective ways in teaching vocabulary to the students who can learn both culture and language at the same time. Although this research is only a short-term, small-scale one and the findings need to be further confirmed by the participation of more researchers and teachers, the research indicated that vocabulary strategies played an important role in solving the vocabulary problems of students.