| New curriculum standard not only improves the demand of students’vocabulary amount but also demands teachers to teach words from communicative angle. The final target of vocabulary teaching is not only to teach students to remember words simply but teach students to master how to understand and use words accurately. At the moment, the method of vocabulary teaching in high school is sole. It is that teachers teach and students recite, which is separated from situations. As a result, vocabulary teaching doesn’t have an obvious effect on students’learning.Situational teaching theory has made great contribution to Chinese basis education since it spread into China last century. But is this method suitable for senior vocabulary teaching? So the author of this thesis has carried on four months’research on the effect of senior English vocabulary situational teaching. The thesis has concluded that situational teaching applied to vocabulary teaching is effective and available by analyzing the experimental data and the results of questionnaire. Teachers create real and fresh situations to let students master words by experiencing language in situations. This not only strengthens the atmosphere of vocabulary learning but also improve students’activity. So that learning aims are attained effectively. The study surrounds the following two questions;1) Can the vocabulary situational teaching help to improve vocabulary teaching effectively?2) Can the vocabulary situational teaching help to improve students’interest of learning vocabulary?The experiment lasted for four months with different teaching treatment to the experimental class and control class involving in120students. The tasks, words’ spelling and number of vocabulary for the two classes were kept the same through the four months. The research instruments used in this study were questionnaires including learning report, interviews and word tests. Before the teaching treatment, in the first week of the experiment, the two groups were given the pre-test and questionnaires. The purpose of questionnaire was to find out the attitude of students to vocabulary teaching and the situation of vocabulary learning. After the survey, the author interviewed some students of experimental group to know some details about vocabulary learning. Then the scores of the vocabulary tests of the two groups were analyzed to make the two groups from the same level. From the second week to the seventeenth week, the experimental group was given the teaching treatment according to situational teaching theory which aimed to improve their interest to learning vocabulary and ability of using words. The teacher would teach new words by creating different situations. While the control group received the regular teaching. In the final week, both of two groups received post-test and the questionnaires again. The data of tests was carefully collected and analyzed by SPSS16.0.(independent t-test) and the data of questionnaire was ration analysed. Besides these, data from interviews and learning reports were qualitatively ananlyzed. The data analysis of the tests showed that the experimental group and the control group had significant difference after the experiment, which suggested that the teaching on the basis of situational teaching theory was effective in improving the students’ability of remembering and using words. In addition, the teaching treatment in experimental group has proved to be effective in cultivating the students’activity and interest and improving their abilities of remembering and using words. The scores were also influenced by this teaching method in some way.The findings suggested that the way to create a series of situational activities in vocabulary teaching and make students think and communicate in real English environment would greatly improve effect of remembering words. The situational vocabulary teaching also cultivated the students’ interest of learning vocabulary. The emphasis on the significance of language situation in vocabulary teaching is an issue worthy of further exploration and discussion. This study finally provides its recommendations for further research. |
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