Promoting Learner Autonomy In Vocational Colleges Via Corpus-Based English Vocabulary Teaching

Recently, the higher education is becoming more and more popular, the number of vocational college students accounts for more than half of the students who enjoy higher education, and they are the backbone of the high technology in the future. Today, the knowledge updates rapidly, and the vocational college students have the ability to acquire new knowledge of the industry, by this they do better when they start working, so we should combine ability cultivating and knowledge teaching closely in English teaching classes of vocational colleges. However, it is generally acknowledged that the basis of the majority of vocational students'English level is poor, and their attitudes to English are weary. The author believed that by using the corpus in the actual teaching, it was useful to develop the students'comprehensive capacity and improve the effectiveness of English teaching.At first, the paper describes the theoretical basis of the research, and discussed the related concepts of the corpus and independent study in detail. On the basis of conducting the previous research with an overall review, the author analyzed the purpose, significance and research methods of the study. Then, it analyzed the practical application of corpus in English vocabulary self-learning, including the construction of corpus, the role corpus played in English vocabulary self-learning, and the teachers'roles in self-teaching process with the use of corpus. In the process of practical investigation and analysis, this paper conducted a questionnaire survey on vocational students to analyze the performances of students before and after the use of teaching methods with corpus, and then conducted the actual impact on vocational students'English vocabulary self-learning with the use of corpus. At last, the author concluded that:the use of the corpus a significant effect on vocational students' English vocabulary self-learning, and is a powerful tool to promote them to do self-study better.As a new learning resource, corpus is not only a challenge for traditional teachers, but is also a new way provided to English teaching. It complemented and extended the classroom teaching, and also stimulated the interest of learners in active learning, expanded the learner's thinking, and was also helpful to develop their abilities of self-discovery and problem-solving. Therefore, it is very necessary to introduce the English language corpus associated with the real-life situation with the English teaching of vocational institutions. At the same time, it also promoted teaching by melting the complemented corpus materials into the core corpus materials.