On English Vocabulary Teaching For Secondary Specialized School

This paper aims at discovering a more effective approach to teach vocabulary in secondary technical schools. Based on the literature of vocabulary teaching, this paper first summarizes the history and the theory of English vocabulary teaching. Second, it carries out a survey on the vocabulary learning strategy in a secondary technical school by questionnaire to pinpoint some problems about the students' vocabulary learning. Based on the findings of the survey, the present researcher makes some experiments on vocabulary teaching in a secondary technical school with a variety of methods, such as vocabulary-centered method, word-building method and associative method. All these teaching methods focus on vocabulary learning as well as learning some basic language knowledge and developing comprehensive competence of using language.The experiment lasts one whole term and three classes are selected for the experiment: Class A adopts the traditional teaching method, namely, using both context method and indirect teaching method. Class B uses word-building method and associative method. Class C selects vocabulary-centered method. By analyzing the data colleted the present author draws a conclusion: Vocabulary teaching should be carried out in context; it would be better to combine vocabulary-centered method with some other ways or techniques; and it would be more effective to use different teaching techniques in various situations. Some suggestions are put forward on English vocabulary teaching in secondary specialized school at the end of the paper.