| Vocabulary teaching is an important part of English teaching.For English learning,vocabulary is the basis of language ability and is the basic element that constitutes language ability.The effective implementation of the General Senior High Schools English Curriculum Standards(2017edition revised in 2020)and the New 2022 Inner Mongolia College Entrance Examination Reform Program,both indicate that the subject of English is gaining more and more attention.However,the teaching of English in senior high schools is still largely focused on college entrance exams of students.Teachers only emphasize their grammar and reading skills,while vocabulary teaching remains a weak link in English teaching.It is also recognized as a difficult area for both teachers and students.Therefore,many English teachers have been wondering how to teach vocabulary well and how to help students master vocabulary more effectively.According to the literature review,it was found that many linguists at home and abroad have studied vocabulary teaching from different perspectives.And they have also proposed a variety of effective strategies for teaching and learning vocabulary.However,there are few studies on strategies for teaching and learning English vocabulary in senior high school from ethnic areas.Therefore,this thesis takes the teachers and students of Horqin Left Wing Middle Banner Mongolian Senior High School in Tongliao City as the research object,and uses questionnaires and interviews as the research methods to address the following questions:(1)What are the problems facing the teaching of English vocabulary in senior high school classrooms?(2)What are the factors that cause problems in senior high school English vocabulary teaching?(3)What effective strategies should be adopted in response to the current situation of English vocabulary teaching in senior high schools?By examining the current situation of English vocabulary teaching and learning among teachers and students of Horqin Left Wing Middle Banner Mongolian Senior High School,the author found that the main problems of high school English teaching are the following: teachers are short of vocabulary teaching theories and research awareness;teachers use simple and traditional vocabulary teaching methods,and ignoring students’ subjective status;teachers do not pay enough attention to students’ emotional needs;teachers do not help students establish correct concepts of vocabulary learning.Students’ vocabulary is relatively insufficient,which seriously affects English learning;students singly memorize vocabulary and easily forget it;students lack of guidance on metacognitive strategies;and cannot practice using the learned words.The main factors that cause the above problems are the insufficient skills of teachers;the number of students is large and the different learning levels.Lack of language learning environments;and lack of patience and perseverance for students,etc.Therefore,combining the analysis of the survey results,the author proposes strategies and suggestions for teachers such as contextual teaching strategy,communicative teaching strategy,multimedia teaching strategy,strategies for feedback and assessment,teachers improve their quality,penetration of emotional factors in teaching.For students,the author proposes strategies and suggestions such as metacognitive learning strategy,and associative guessing strategy,using learning Apps,Ebbinghaus forgetting curve,think outside the wordbook.This study can stimulate students’ understanding of the depth and breadth of vocabulary in ethnic areas and help develop their critical thinking skills.It also allows students to learn English vocabulary in a planned way based on deep thinking.Thus,developing their higher-order thinking skills of knowledge construction,understanding,and analysis.It also provides a referential basis for ethnic English education research and practice. |
