A Study On Vocabulary Learning Materials In New Senior English For China

As vocabulary plays an important role in English learning, it has beenpaid more attention by the scholars at home and abroad for a long time.From vocabulary teaching to vocabulary acquisition, it fully reflects theimportance of vocabulary. However, as a main load of vocabulary,coursebook is a most direct instrument for students to learn vocabularies.Therefore, more and more scholars start to combine vocabulary withcoursebook and to research the vocabulary materials in coursebook.This thesis attempts to analyze and evaluate the compulsory textbooks(1-5) of New Senior English for China published by People EducationalPress according to the criteria of Cunningsworth, Hedge and new standardsfor English curriculum. It aims to find out how the vocabulary is presented,how the compiler design the vocabulary exercises, how much guidance inSEFC for vocabulary teaching and learning is and what the attitude andneeds of teachers and students on the selection of vocabulary, thepresentation of vocabulary, vocabulary exercises and some guidance forteaching and learning in coursebook are.The research process is mainly divided into two parts: static analysisand dynamic analysis. The static analysis focuses on analyzing thevocabulary materials in coursebook from the selection of vocabulary, thepresentation of vocabulary, vocabulary exercise and vocabulary learningstrategy. The dynamic analysis focuses on analyzing the results of statisticscompletely by investigating the teachers and students by questionnaires andgetting statistics by Spss21.0. After analyzing, it is found that the contentand topic for the selection of vocabulary involves many aspects, thepresentation of vocabulary is moderate and the form of vocabulary exercisesis various. It basically satisfies the need of teachers and students, but there are some aspects remained to be improved, for instance, the limitation oflearning strategies, the amount of vocabulary and so on. In a further day,these problems need to be taken into consider.This thesis consists of six parts. The first part summarizes some relatedstudies on vocabulary evaluation; the second part reviews the theoreticalbasis; the third part introduces research methodology explicitly; the fourthpart analyzes the vocabulary learning materials in textbook; the fifth partanalyzes questionnaires; the sixth part is conclusion.