The Techniques and Designs for Vocabulary Teaching in Junior Middle Schools

何晓梅

[Abstract] the effective methods of English vocabulary teaching and words learning will directly impact the result of students understanding and grasp of English， it can also effect on English communication. Standards of new curriculum emphasize on higher requirement of the vocabulary teaching， so how to inspire and mobilize the enthusiasm of students to remember vocabulary is an important subject of English teachers.

[Key words] English in junior schools； vocabulary teaching； techniques

With the development of economy and trade， people in a world communicate with each other increasingly. While English as an international language， it acts as an important role in international activities. English vocabulary learning in junior middle schools is students first step to learn English， and it requires English teachers to inspire and motivate students' enthusiasm to learn English vocabulary. So it is necessary that teachers should help students efficiently to remember vocabulary very well.

一、The Importance and Necessity of the Techniques for Vocabulary

Teaching

In recent years， many researches have proved the central role of vocabulary learning in language acquisition. But how can we acquire the new vocabulary effectively？ The application of techniques in English vocabulary teaching process is very important.

Vocabulary teaching strategies are the means and techniques adopted by the teachers and learners to obtain， remember， retrieve and use new vocabulary more efficiently. In the process of teaching vocabulary， they will be very beneficial for the teachers to use proper teaching strategies to present new vocabularies and help students consolidate vocabularies.

二、Some Technical Ways of Teaching Vocabulary in Junior Middle

Schools

1.Using the Communication to Teach

“The language is a tool of communication， the final purpose to learn language is for communication.”

In the early 1970s， the Communicative Approach or Communicative Language Teaching （CA or CLT） whose ultimate goal is to develop learners communicative competence occurred in Europe. It includes two versions： the weak version and the strong version. The weak version of CA stresses the significance of providing learners with opportunities to use their English for communicative purposes. The strong version of CA claims that language is acquired through communication. So the four language skills， namely， listening， speaking， reading， and writing should follow the communicative principle because the ultimate goal of learning language is to communicate.