An Experimental Study Of Corpus Concordance Of English Vocabulary Teaching In High School

The writing of this paper has been initiated by a practical concern and a theoretical inspiration. The practical concern lies in the unprecedented passion of English learning environment in China, and the great challenge of vocabulary learning facing the learners. The theoretical inspiration comes from the application of corpus concordance and Data-Driven Learning.According to the review of the researches, the teaching method of DDL and the corpora are more often used in the university level, but seldom in the high schools. However the high school students nowadays have had a good command of computer and multimedia, which prepare them to use corpora and the method of DDL to accomplish some English learning tasks. So the author of this thesis tries to introduce the new technology and method into high school English vocabulary teaching。This thesis centers on the vocabulary learning in corpus-based contexts and Data-driven-Learning. The new material and technology are used in the experiment, that is, the corpora and the multimedia. Meanwhile, the new teaching method is applied----DDL (Data-Driven learning method). Data are collected from the experiment and then analyzed. As expected, the result proves that the new technology and teaching method are helpful to the learner in their learning vocabulary, especially on the aspects of deepening the vocabulary knowledge and the longer retention of the vocabulary.