A Study On The Lexical Learning Strategies Of Senior High School Students

Vocabulary is the fundamental unit of language, which forms the basis of communication. Language will lose its practical meaning without vocabulary. Wilkins said,"Without grammar very little can be conveyed, without vocabulary nothing can be conveyed"and from the Wilkins'words, the importance of vocabulary can be obviously seen and tested by practice. However, vocabulary learning is the most difficult task in students' studies, especially for senior high school students. Through the seven-year teaching English at school, it is found that many students have mastered the grammatical items, but they still fail to get high marks in examinations. Their lack of vocabulary accounts for the result. The basic reason is that they are unwilling to memorize new words and also know little about how to recite new words. Therefore, this dissertation studies the correlation between English vocabulary learning strategies and English scores of high school students, trying to provide valuable references for high school teachers and students. Specifically, this thesis will mainly address the following questions:1. What is the students'view on the vocabulary studies?2. What problems do the students meet with in vocabulary strategies while studying vocabulary?3. Which vocabulary strategies have positive effects on the students'vocabulary studies?4. For high school students, how to use the effective vocabulary strategies to direct their future English studies?The thesis consists of six parts. The first part is introduction, which puts forward the research subject, makes clear the research background and its practical value. The second part is theory framework. The study is developed from O'Malley and Chamot's framework of learning strategies, in which metacognitive strategies, cognitive strategies, social / affective strategies are included. Part three is Literature Review which introduces the results of the research in history, in which the definition and the classification of the learning strategies and the vocabulary learning strategies are introduced. Besides, the studies at home and abroad are given in details. Part four is the research design. At first, the objectives of the survey and survey objects are settled. Then, a questionnaire is designed to survey 105 students of Senior One in Changchun Foreign Languages School. The Excel is used to carry out Pearson Correlation analysis statistically. The fifth part is the results of the statistical analysis. The last part is the conclusion in which the main findings of this study are summarized, and the implications of this study as well as the limitations of the paper are shown too.