Research Into The Use Of Classification In Vocabulary Learning

Among the three essential elements (phonetics, vocabulary, grammar) of English language, the role vocabulary plays in English learning is undoubtedly of great significance. Insufficiency in vocabulary hinders the improvement in listening, speaking,, reading and writing as well as translating. Moreover, according to Standards for English Language Teaching, students in senior school are required to grasp a considerable amount of vocabulary, which poses a great burden to students.However, there still arise a great many puzzles deserving to be improved in vocabulary learning and teaching such as discounting the importance of vocabulary learning strategies, lack of proper guidance in memorizing vocabulary, ineffectiveness despite much devotion, and so on. It is common that both teachers and students are extremely exhausted in teaching and learning of the English vocabulary.Although quite a few relevant researches concerning vocabulary learning have come out, yet researches and experiments designed for senior high school students are quite limited. This paper, lasting a whole term, is meant to testify the effect of vocabulary classification in vocabulary teaching and learning.This paper is designed to explore answers to the following questions:1) Is the way of classifying words helpful to foster students’ vocabulary learning? 2) Does classification help improve the utilization of vocabulary? 3) Can utilization of classification enhance the whole performance of English learning?Questionnaires, dictation, interview and tests are to be used to testify the effect.After the experiment, I have got the following findings. (1) By means of classification, students are more enthusiastic about vocabulary learning.(2)Classification contributes to improving vocabulary memorization.(3) Classification can raise students’ awareness of utilizing learning strategies while learning new words. (4) Classification has a positive influence on students’performance in English tests.