A Survey On Senior High School English Vocabulary Teaching Strategies

Vocabulary is one of the most important parts of language. For it is thefoundation of language learning. We can say it is nothing without vocabulary.Thus vocabulary teaching is an essential part of English teaching. But inreality, most English teachers believe that words learning is the students’ ownjobs and ask students to recite words after class. Some teachers make noefforts at all to deal with vocabulary teaching and leave the whole task to thelearners for self-learning. So they often ignore the vocabulary teaching in class.As we know without teachers’ help and guidance, it is very difficult forlearners to memorize words. If teachers teach vocabulary in a more efficientway and help learners to develop good vocabulary learning strategies,language learning will surely be more enjoyable and less painstaking and moreeffective.Based on the vocabulary teaching strategies theories, This paper aims toexplore the situation of vocabulary teaching better by surveying thevocabulary teaching strategies used by teachers in Anshun No.1Senior HighSchool and the reasons. This will help teacher reform their current vocabularyteaching and improve teaching efficiency. So author tries to answer thefollowing three questions：1. In the survey, what vocabulary teaching strategies do the teachers oftenuse in NO.1Senior High School?2. In the survey, what characteristics do these vocabulary teachingstrategies used often by the teachers have in NO.1Senior High School?3. In the survey, what viewpoints do the teachers have about thevocabulary teaching strategies in NO.1Senior High School?By investigating the thirty English teachers in in NO.1Senior HighSchool, the author found that teachers prefer consolidation strategies mostamong the three categories of vocabulary teaching strategies, the averagescore is the2.00, it is the highest, especially the strategy item15,17.70% teachers always use them in their teaching practice. It implies that teachersalways use traditional ways to review the vocabulary, that is asking studentsrecite the words one by one or use dictation for memorizing the vocabulary.training strategies are used least among the three categories, the averagescore is only0.84, that means the teachers seldom use training strategies tohelp students to master the words. It implies that teachers just pay muchattention to tests instead of helping students to learn. According to theinterview, the author found that the teachers believe that vocabulary teachingis important and necessary,28of them choose the important option, thepercentage is93.33%. But from table4.7,60%of the teachers, over half of theteachers do not well know about vocabulary teaching strategies bothsystematically and theoretically.Through the questionnaire and interview, it is not difficult to find thatteachers realize the importance of vocabulary teaching, but in teaching reality,they often use the traditional way to teach, they are facing some difficulties onhow to adopt more effective vocabulary strategies in their teaching practice.So at last, the author provides some suggestions.