A Research On Cognitive Vocabulary Learning Strategies Of English Majors

Segler, Pain and Sorace (2002) think that“vocabulary is the mostimportant problem which is concerned by language learners.”Vocabularylearning strategies is generally referring to the method to enhance thevocabulary learning effect which is used by language learners. It is veryimportant to improve the learning efficiency. Nowadays, in China, collegenon-English majors’ teaching English to speakers of otherlanguages(TESOL) has been greatly developed. Meanwhile, English majors’TESOL is not well developed and still in a“traditional”mode. Because ofnot receiving as much value as non-English majors, English majors’ TESOLis not well developed. There is great need of researching English majors’TESOL. The research on learning styles is, as one of the most importantfactors, the research on individual differences. Perceptual learning style is aweak but important part of learning style. Western scholars have done a lotof empirical research on learning style. However, in China, the research onlearning style is still on the stage of theoretical constructing, which lacksempirical research on Chinese language learners. There have been someresearches on non-English majors students, but few are on the Englishmajors. To go with the tide of times, to meet the need of individualdevelopment of English major learners, and to enhance college Englishmajors’ TESOL, this research shall study the cognitive strategies applied inEnglish majors’ vocabulary acquisition from the view of perceptual learningstyle.Compared to non-English major students, the English majors arespecial. Long time training gives them specific characteristics. This research shall study on English-majors students and study the data from differentangles, in order to find the change and development in English majors.