A Study Of English Vocabulary Teaching Transition From Junior To Senior

English vocabulary teaching is an important part of English teaching. In China,many senior high school students have problems in learning vocabulary. This is mainlybecause there is a big gap in learning English between junior and senior high schoolsand new senior high school students can hardly adjust to senior high school teaching.English teaching in junior and senior high schools has a lot of differences in thecompilation of teaching materials, even in teaching methods. With the reform of theNew Curriculum System, English teachers have begun to pay more attention to teachingtransition from junior to senior high schools. Teaching transition not only helpsstudents from the aspect of knowledge, but also enables them to meet the NewCurriculum Standards in terms of learning habits and strategies, and to achieveautonomous learning.As we all know, vocabulary teaching is an important part of language teaching, andruns through the whole process of language teaching and influences many aspects ofEnglish teaching such as the teaching of reading, writing, and grammar. Therefore,vocabulary teaching transition from junior to senior high schools should be concerned.With the purpose of exploring the current situation of vocabulary teaching transitionunder New Curriculum Reform, the author made a questionnaire investigation forstudents and interviewed teachers in Chongqing No.18Middle School, including280students,3English teachers in junior classes and3English teachers in senior classes.Finally, the author found problems of vocabulary teaching transition.According to the study, students in junior classes learned English easily and gotexcellent results, but they could hardly adjust to English learning in senior classes,especially vocabulary learning. So English vocabulary teaching should have sometransitional problems. That is, teachers didn’t put the New Curriculum Concept intopractice. The vocabulary teaching methods were too simple and boring. The vocabularylearning efficiency was very low. Students haven’t formed good habits of learning vocabulary and couldn’t use the strategies of learning vocabulary.To solve these problems, the author put forward three solutions. First, teachersshould renew their ideas of the New Curriculum renovation and put them into practice,including teaching and learning ideas. The specific practices are that teachers shouldestablish some new views of teaching English vocabulary, that is, teachers’ teachingviews should be advancing, teaching should take students as the center and teachingmaterials should be adjusted. Second, teachers should vary vocabulary teachingmethods, arouse students’ interest in learning English vocabulary and improve theeffectiveness of vocabulary teaching. Vocabulary presentation should be diversified,vocabulary teaching should combine with phonetic teaching and memorizingvocabulary should follow the law of the memory. Finally, teachers also should developstudents’ habits and strategies of learning vocabulary, and help students formautonomous learning habits and stragegies to achieve efficient autonomous learning.The purpose of the thesis is to find the problems in English vocabulary teachingtransition, and help students in senior high school smoothly go through the transition ofEnglish vocabulary learning from junior to senior high schools and lay a goodfoundation for their senior high school study and the life-long learning.