An Action Research On English Vocabulary Learning Among Students In Vocational Schools

Higher technical and vocational institution is developing very fast in recent years. It is the cradle of the advanced technical personnel in China's modernization construction. It cultivates many useful people for our society. And it has become a very important part of higher education. English must be paid more attention to as an indispensable subject of the higher vocational education. So how to help the students study vocabularies well is very important. Due to the particularity of the students in higher vocational college, the improvement of vocabulary learning is becoming an urgent issue.The writer aims to solve the problem of vocabulary learning on the basis of the information processing theory in the paper. The writer constructs vocabulary acquisition learning mode during the research. There are five parts in the paper. The writer gives an introduction in the first part, where the writer elaborates on current situation of higher vocational students'vocabulary acquisition. In the second part the author is concerned with present situation of the theory on vocabulary acquisition at home and aboard. During this part, the author also makes an introduction on information processing theory of cognitive psychology. In the third part, the author introduces the concrete project and the implementation process. In the fourth part the author collects and analyzes the data. The analyzing result is more scientific by using SPSS 13. Finally the author comes to a conclusion, illustrates the deficiency and put forward the suggestions.Generally speaking, the result of the research shows that the vocabulary teaching model based on the information processing theory is better than traditional one. The students can't improve their capability of vocabulary acquisition unless they form the habit of using different strategies to learn words. Of course, further studies are expected to perfect vocabulary acquisition.