英语词汇提高策略The Strategies of Enlarging English VocabularyAbstract: Memorizing English vocabulary is an everyday learning activity for many students in China. For many years, programs that prepared learners of second language gave little attention to techniques for learning vocabulary. As we enter the 21st century, acquisition of vocabulary has assumed a more important role.Nowadays, it is agreed by all that vocabulary is the building blocks of a language. Without vocabulary verbal communication is equal to impossible. This thesis is aimed to deal with the strategies of learning English vocabulary.It starts with the discussion of what is involved in the learning of a new word, then studies the factors affecting vocabulary learning. Two important vocabulary strategies are put forward and discussed in detail.Key words: English vocabulary; Vocabulary learning conditions; Vocabulary learning strategies摘要： 对大多数中国学生来说，记忆英语词汇是每天的学习任务。许多年来，英语教学材料中给学习词汇的技巧没有太多的关注。而当我们进入21世纪，学习词汇已变得越来越重要。如今，词汇是语言的基石已被语言学习者所广泛接受。没有词汇口头交流是不可能的。这篇论文将致力于讨论学习英语词汇的策略。论文开篇将展开讨论学习一个词汇需要注意的一些方面，然后研究了影响英语词汇学习的因素。在这篇论文中提出了两种学习英语词汇的重要策略并且展开了细节讨论。关键词： 英语词汇; 词汇学习条件; 词汇学习策略ContentsI. Introduction.1II. What is involved in the learning of a word?.1III. Factors affecting word learning ability.2A. Pronunciation.2B. Derivational complexity.3C. Abstractness. 4D. Specificity and register restriction. .5E. Idiomaticity.6IV. Strategies of learning vocabulary.6A. Discovery strategies.6 1. Determination strategies.6 2. Social strategies.8B. Consolidation strategies.9 1. Mutual strategies.9 2. Memory strategies.9 3.Pictures/imagery.10 4. Related words.10 5.Unrelated words.10 6. Grouping.11 7. Words orthographical or phonological form.12 8. Other memory strategies.12 9. Cognitive strategies.13 10. Metacognitive strategies.14V. Conclusion.15Works Cited.16I. IntroductionFor Chinese students, vocabulary learning has been a time-consuming task. Memorizing vocabulary is a burden to a large number of students. Teachers of English know very well how important vocabulary is. They know students must learn thousands of words that speakers and writers of English use. But for many years, programs that prepared learners of second language gave little attention to techniques for learning vocabulary. Some books appeared to telling learners that they could learn all the words they needed without help. In fact, teachers were sometimes told that they ought not to teach many words before their students had mastered the grammar and the sound system of the language. Pronunciation and grammar were emphasized, but there was little or no emphasis on vocabulary.Vocabulary is the building blocks of a language. Without vocabulary verbal communication is impossible. The task of vocabulary learning is a substantial one of learners. Fortunately, the need for vocabulary is one point on which teachers and students agree. In teacher-preparation programs today, there is more attention to techniques for teaching vocabulary. With this shift emphasis, the classroom teacher is faced with the great challenge of how best to help students store and retrieve words in the target language.The study of vocabularylearning strategies is a promising area of inquiry. This is because it is possible to define the learning targets and strategies very precisely. And also to investigate strategies that have wide currency in the literature. Also, vocabulary learning strategies lend themselves to experimental investigation.II. What is involved in the learning of a word?In most linguistic analyses a word is described as a