| As one of the three basic factors of language,vocabulary plays an essential role in foreign language acquisition.However,many students have large difficulty learning new words and some students don’t have better way to memorize words effectively.Therefore,the exploration of effective vocabulary teaching methods has strong practical significance and value.Dual Coding Theory(DCT)points out that human cognitive system includes verbal and non-verbal systems.The verbal system takes the logogen as the code and its main function is to memorize and store language information,while the non-verbal system takes the imagen as the code to deal with non-verbal information.This study,on the basis of DCT,helps students form images through real objects,picture,video,audio and so on in English vocabulary teaching,and improve their interest in vocabulary learning and abilities to use vocabulary.The study focuses on the following two research questions:1.What is the correlation between students’ attitude,interest,learning method and vocabulary ability under the guidance of DCT ?2.What are the teaching effects of English vocabulary teaching method with the application of DCT in Junior High School?In order to testify the effectiveness of this method,a three-month experiment was carried out and 65 students in Grade 8 in Affiliated School of Suining High School were chosen as subjects.During the study,questionnaires,interview,and tests were all applied in the experiment as well.Moreover,the Correlation Analysis and SamplePaired T-Test were adopted to analyze the questionnaires and test data both before and after the experiment.Two major findings are concluded as follows:Firstly,under the guidance of DCT based vocabulary teaching method,the correlations between students’ attitude,interest,method and vocabulary achievement are significant,which are all higher than those before the experiment.It can be seen that learning attitude,interest and method are the main influencing factors of students’ vocabulary learning.Among them,the correlation between vocabulary learning method and score is greatly improved,which is 0.556 higher than that before the experiment,indicating this teaching method is helpful for vocabulary learning.Secondly,through comparing the questionnaire results both before and after the experiment,it can be found that the mean score after the experiment is 3.89 points higher than before,which shows that the students attach great importance to vocabulary learning and show significant increases in their vocabulary learning interest,also,students have been accustomed to apply it to learn vocabulary.Moreover,it can also be concluded that DCT based vocabulary teaching method can improve students’ vocabulary proficiency,according to the mean score of the post-test is 6.60 points higher than that of the pre-test.In short,this experiment has testified the effects of DCT based vocabulary method,but it still has some limitations.So,the author hopes that more people will involve in this study to improve students’ vocabulary learning. |
