| Vocabulary acts as an important root of English, playing a unique role in English learning. According to the discovery of home and abroad scholars, it is said that the accumulation on this has an important effect on language learning, which also affects greatly the language proficiency of learners. However, nowadays, students consider it as a difficult task for them to acquire language learning. Besides, scholars found that teachers have problems in vocabulary teaching. Therefore, students are given few chances to use them. Above all, all these factors result in their low grades, and makes me choose this thesis topic.This research bases on the vocabulary theories to analyze the relationship between vocabulary learning concepts and strategies, also the difference in using them between two groups.The methods used in this research are questionnaire, interview and SPSS analysis,especially using SPSS as statistics analysis. Also, the statistics comes from two classes of grade nine, which amounts 120 people. The vocabulary testing paper is mainly about the key words in their last semester study, making sure high the correlation between those two factors. Having tested the statistics, i could know the correlation between them,which helps me make the conclusion.Those conclusions are as follows:Based on the study of questionnaire, first of all, most students do not hold the traditional learning concepts that are remote memorizing or writing them down for many times. On the contrary, they consider that the words should be memorized in the contexts and usages, proving that they try to adopt new learning concepts and uses. Secondly,students use less traditional methods, such as memorization, reputation, and memorization, they use guessing and meta-cognition strategy. Therefore, we can supposethat students use these methods without consciousness and they are able to make plans on study, adjusting it to studying tasks. Moreover, it also reveals that students learn to use guessing either in contexts or texts, which is consistent with questionnaire. Apart from these, from the analysis on the statistics of two group, it can be condemned that those two groups have distinguished difference in vocabulary strategies. It shows that the former ones are better at using those strategies for vocabulary accumulation, such as meta-cognition strategy, cooperation, and others. Compare to the former ones, the latter ones use frequently reputation, writing or asking for help those kinds of methods to memorize, nevertheless, their learning incentives are not high enough.Finally, making an interview with students who are excellent students and worse students. Through interview, i found that the former ones think that it is not so difficult for them to remember, and they try to memorize them by sounds, and they have a good master on their study plans. In addition, they enlarge their vocabulary reading or listening to foreign songs and they make conversations with teachers in class. After class, they cooperate with their classmates on memorizing words and test each other. The latter ones deem it is difficult for them to remember words. Although, they also suppose that it is non-effective for them to learn by rote, they do not have better ways to remember. Also,they lack the ability of active learning and making plans. More importantly, they are reluctant to memorize words with their classmates, which prove high correlation with two factors. In the end, from the analysis, i found that it is highly relative on taking notes,meta-cognition, and social strategies, which makes me present some advice to English teaching. |
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