Investigation And Research On The Present Situation Of English Vocabulary Teaching In Senior Middle School

English vocabulary teaching in senior high school plays a fundamental and important role in English teaching.The 2017 edition of English Curriculum Standard puts forward a new requirement for English teaching in senior high school--English discipline core accomplishment.English vocabulary teaching is the foundation of English teaching.Therefore,the concepts,objectives,contents,principles,methods,strategies and assessment methods of vocabulary teaching should be further clarified and optimized in both teachers’ teaching and students’ learning.The research questions of this thesis are as follows:(1)What is the present situation of teachers’ vocabulary teaching theory and practice?(2)What is the present situation of students’ vocabulary learning in senior middle school? Taking Linfen No.1 Middle School,Shanxi Normal University Experimental Middle School and Xinhua Middle School as examples,a total of 30 teachers and 300 students were selected to investigate.The author has adopted three methods which are questionnaire survey,interview and classroom observation.Among them,the questionnaire mainly involves all aspects of teachers’ vocabulary teaching and and students’ learning.And the interview mainly involves four aspects,they are the concept,the content,the methods and strategies,and the assessment methods of teachers’ vocabulary teaching.This method can further help to understand the current situation of the theory and practice of vocabulary teaching.The classroom observation mainly involves the methods and strategies of vocabulary teaching as well as the principles to be followed.This method can directly promote the observation of the practice situation,which refers to teachers’ vocabulary teaching and students’ learning.Through the collection,analysis and discussion of the data,the author has found that teachers have made great progress in English vocabulary teaching in senior middle school in recent years,and the overall results are satisfactory,but there are still many problems in English vocabulary teaching.The major findings are the following two aspects.From the teachers’ aspect: At first,the concept of teachers’ vocabulary teaching is not clear,the objective of teachers’ vocabulary teaching is not specific,and the content of teacher’s vocabulary teaching is not complete.There is a inconsistency between teachers’ theoretical knowledge and practical performance.The teachers think that the basic language ability is still the core of vocabulary teaching,such as phonological and semantic use of vocabulary,and so on,which lacks the cultivation of students’ cultural awareness,learning ability and thinking quality.In addition,the principle of teachers’ vocabulary teaching is not clear,and the method of teachers’ vocabulary teaching is not novel,which is mainly reflected in the single method,such as word-formation method is the most common.The failure of adopting appropriate novel methods according to the characteristics of vocabulary is not conducive to arousing students’ enthusiasm for learning and satisfying their profound understanding and application of vocabulary.Moreover,teachers’ vocabulary teaching assessment method is not efficient,especially teachers lack the use and guidance of self-assessment methods for students.From students’ aspect: First of all,the students’ learning objective is not clear,especially students do not know what aspects of vocabulary should be grasped.Besides,students lack vocabulary learning methods and strategies,which is mainly due to the teachers’ failure of guiding students in the process of vocabulary teaching.Furthermore,there is a lack of interest and motivation in students’ vocabulary learning.These problems not only affect the development of students’ basic language ability,but also are not conducive to the cultivation of students’ cultural consciousness,thinking quality and learning ability.At the end of this thesis,the author has put forward some suggestions for the problems existing in English vocabulary teaching and learning in senior high school.