A Study on Vocabulary Learning Strategy Training in College English Classroom Teaching

Vocabulary is central to language acquisition. Vocabulary learning and teaching is an integral part of language teaching. This study is based on O'Malley and Chamot's classification of learning strategies as meta-cognitive strategies, cognitive strategies and social/affective strategies, adopted questionnaires, observations, interviews and tests as the research instruments to investigate the learners' vocabulary learning strategies, to check the efficiency of vocabulary learning strategies, the data adopted are collected for the statistical analysis through SPSS, and the statistics results were obtained by t-test. It aims at examining the effectiveness of strategy training of English vocabulary leaning in the teaching of English text for Chinese non-English majors. The subject is to address to what is the status quo of students' vocabulary learning strategies, whether can the vocabulary learning strategies training help the college students develop their ability of vocabulary acquisition and enlarge their vocabulary. The study results show: through the effectiveness of vocabulary learning strategies training, the students became more aware of these strategies and used it more skillfully and efficiently, the students' vocabulary levels determine their use of the English vocabulary leaning strategy. Students benefit more for their long-life study, and make more efficient effect to improve their vocabulary.