An Experimental Study On Lexical Chunks Acquisition To EFL Vocabulary Learning In Senior High School

It is universally acknowledged that in English teaching and learning, it is vocabulary teaching and learning that is time-consuming and the results are not ideal, which affects English learning a lot, especially in senior high school, when the English grammar which students are required to master by the syllabus has been finished. It has become particularly important to help the students solve or alleviate the problem of vocabulary learning, to enhance students' listening, speaking, reading, writing, translating and other skills, and to lay a good foundation for their lifelong learning.The present paper introduces "the Lexical Chunks Approach" (LCA) to students, which is based on the analysis of the current status of vocabulary teaching and learning. Using the Lexical Chunks Approach aims at helping students improve the efficiency of vocabulary learning, thereby promoting their English learning. Questionnaires and an oral interview are used in the paper to investigate students' vocabulary learning strategies and the status. The investigation is carried on among some students from junior Grade 3 to senior Grade 3 in No. 12 Senior High School in the city of Lanzhou, Gansu Province. And some students in senior Grade One are chosen to be the subjects in the teaching experiment. SPSS statistical software is used for analyzing the data from the experiment on the relation between the Lexical Chunks Approach and vocabulary learning. A series of research findings is won. The purpose of the study is achieved.This paper consists of five parts. The first part starts with a brief introduction to the importance of vocabulary in learning English and the current status of vocabulary learning followed by the purpose and significance of the study; the second part reviews the previous studies in this regard at home and abroad; the third part presents the theory foundations of the research: 1) Lewis, M's Lexical Approach; 2) James R. Nattinger & Jeanette S. DeCarrico's prefabricated lexical phrases; in Part Four, the hypotheses are advanced first, then provide some information concerning the subjects, instruments, the procedures of the teaching experiment as well as the data collection and statistical results analysis and the conclusion is obtained; the fifth part concerns itself with the discussion about the findings obtained from the present study and points out the limitations and suggestions for further research.