An Analysis of English Vocabulary Learning Strategies

Abstract

Vocabulary is one of the three elements of language, the building material and the basic of language. To communicate with others fluently, the first premise is that we must have a certain amount of vocabularies. Facing so many words to learn, it’s necessary to investigate the vocabulary leaning strategies. The paper mainly studies the strategies of English vocabulary learning. Firstly it introduces the importance of vocabulary learning. Secondly, it explains the significance and purpose of the study, and does the survey to the current problems of students’ vocabulary learning. Thirdly, it gives the definition and classification about the vocabulary learning strategies. Then, in the paper some factors which affect the strategies of vocabulary learning are listed. Finally, it points out the specific strategies of vocabulary learning and gets some opinion about it. It is hoped that this paper can offer some help for students’ English vocabulary learning, and expand students’ vocabulary. Also, it can improve students’ interest in vocabulary learning and make vocabulary learning easy.