AStudyofStudent-centeredEnglishVocabularyTeaching

毕业论文（设计）1.IntroductionEnglish as a global language,plays an increasingly important part in the world.In our country,the demand for people who can successfully communicate inEnglish is becoming more important as China faces increasing internationalinvestment opportunities and the entering of WTO.In China,students are requiredto begin to learn English when they are in primary school.However,even they havebegan to attack to English learning for so many years,when they listen to nativeEnglish speakers,they would feel very painful.Even the university graduates oftenfind themselves in embarrassing situations when they are required to speak inEnglish or listen to native English speakers.They often would not make a fluentand logical sentence,and they would not understand what is being said when theyare using English to talk with others.Why would this happen?The most important of the factors that causes suchsituation is that they don't have enough vocabulary,so when they talk to foreigners,they can't find suitable words to express themselves.As we all know that vocabulary is the material of language construction.Without it,the language would lose its actual meaning.That is just like to cookdinner without rice.Vocabulary teaching plays an important role in English teaching.When we talk to English speakers,we need to have a store of vocabulary,which wecan select from freely when we wish to express our thoughts.For students,mastering a certain number of vocabulary is the key to learn English.2