The interplay of academic atmosphere,learning motivation,and strategies inherently influences English learning.Effective vocabulary acquisition strategies significantly influence the achievements of English acquisitio...The interplay of academic atmosphere,learning motivation,and strategies inherently influences English learning.Effective vocabulary acquisition strategies significantly influence the achievements of English acquisition.Vocabulary mastery,a cornerstone of middle school English education,raises a critical question:How can vocabulary strategies optimize students’memory,understanding,and vocabulary application?This article elaborates on the importance and characteristics of vocabulary learning in Chinese junior high schools,analyzes definitions and theories of learning strategies,and proposes specific vocabulary approaches tailored to junior high school students in rural-urban fringe areas.展开更多
The advantage of Chinese-as-a-heritage-language(CHL)learners in acquiring Chinese has been widely recognized.However,it is still unclear whether the effect of CHL background on Chinese receptive vocabulary breadth var...The advantage of Chinese-as-a-heritage-language(CHL)learners in acquiring Chinese has been widely recognized.However,it is still unclear whether the effect of CHL background on Chinese receptive vocabulary breadth varies across different countries.To address this gap,the present study recruited 232 Chinese language learners(half were CHL learners)from Indonesia and Thailand and administered a Chinese vocabulary proficiency test.The results of regression analysis revealed an interaction effect between country and CHL background on vocabulary breadth,with the contribution of CHL background to vocabulary breadth more robust in the Indonesian group than that in the Thai group.Interviews were then conducted to explore the factors that might influence such an interaction effect.Analysis of the interview data found that the influencing factors could be categorized into four themes,including individual differences,family background,Chinese language education and socio-cultural factors.The overall results were discussed within the framework of ecological system theory,and pedagogical implications for CHL learners were proposed.展开更多
This paper concentrates on the depth of vocabulary knowledge and vocabulary learning metacognitive strategies used by Chinese non-English majors in an independent college.Results show the depth of vocabulary knowledge...This paper concentrates on the depth of vocabulary knowledge and vocabulary learning metacognitive strategies used by Chinese non-English majors in an independent college.Results show the depth of vocabulary knowledge of the subjects only reaches the passing level.And metacognitive strategies are correlated significantly with the depth of vocabulary knowledge.展开更多
The paper aims to examine the application of multimedia technology in expanding vocabulary in second language acquisition.Incorporating innovative technology such as mobile applications,gaming applications,websites,an...The paper aims to examine the application of multimedia technology in expanding vocabulary in second language acquisition.Incorporating innovative technology such as mobile applications,gaming applications,websites,and other related online tools has increased learners’vocabulary mastery,engagement,and motivation levels.Interactional processes like media-embedded objects,teach-learning capacity algorithms,and feedback help learners receive the course in a personalized way that considers individual learning patterns or abilities.However,there are the following challenges:accessibility issues,total reliance on technology,and issues related to privacy.The following challenges affecting learning that arise from using gadgets:the digital divide,limited device access,and environmental issues that may distract a learner in a technology-enabled environment.Moreover,the security issue for data and the ethical question of users’information remain important too.Hence,the paper provides arguments that although these technologies contribute significantly to vocabulary acquisition,the challenge that emerges should be addressed by integrating technology in teaching and learning alongside conventional methods for vocabulary acquisition,which is a practical language acquisition tool that should not be monopolized.展开更多
Dear Editor,This letter proposes an innovative open-vocabulary 3D scene understanding model based on visual-language model.By efficiently integrating 3D point cloud data,image data,and text data,our model effectively ...Dear Editor,This letter proposes an innovative open-vocabulary 3D scene understanding model based on visual-language model.By efficiently integrating 3D point cloud data,image data,and text data,our model effectively overcomes the segmentation problem[1],[2]of traditional models dealing with unknown categories[3].By deeply learning the deep semantic mapping between vision and language,the network significantly improves its ability to recognize unlabeled categories and exceeds current state-of-the-art methods in the task of scene understanding in open-vocabulary.展开更多
Through a survey-based approach including questionnaire surveys and teaching experiments,this paper studies the effects of mind mapping on students’vocabulary mastery,learning strategies and learning interest in juni...Through a survey-based approach including questionnaire surveys and teaching experiments,this paper studies the effects of mind mapping on students’vocabulary mastery,learning strategies and learning interest in junior high school English vocabulary teaching.The study conducted over three months with two parallel classes,one as the experimental group and the other as the control group.The results show that integrating mind maps can improve students’vocabulary and spelling accuracy,promote autonomous learning,and increase interest in vocabulary acquisition.Finally,this paper puts forward some suggestions on cultivating diversified thinking,student-centered teaching and applying interdisciplinary mind mapping to help teachers improve students’vocabulary ability in junior high school English teaching.展开更多
Vocabulary, as the information carrier, plays an indispensable role of language. Likely, vocabulary learning is a significant part in English learning, so vocabulary acquisition becomes one of the hottest SLA research...Vocabulary, as the information carrier, plays an indispensable role of language. Likely, vocabulary learning is a significant part in English learning, so vocabulary acquisition becomes one of the hottest SLA research fields. This study tests the vocabulary size of 61 first- year students in Jiangsu Maritime Institute by applying the adjusted Nation's Vocabulary Level Test(VLT), laying basis for further researches and studies on vocabulary acquisition and development of those students.展开更多
The vocabulary learning strategies are very common in English learning. Basing on O'Malley & Chamot's classification framework of vocabulary learning strategies, the present study conducts research by the ...The vocabulary learning strategies are very common in English learning. Basing on O'Malley & Chamot's classification framework of vocabulary learning strategies, the present study conducts research by the questionnaires and interviews of junior Business English Majors to know the current real situation of business English vocabulary learning strategies used by business English Majors. After analyzing and discussing the problems which are reflected in the questionnaire and interview, the researcher puts forward some suggestions on vocabulary learning and teaching in Business English. The researcher hopes it is helpful for Business English Majors to learn Business English vocabulary.展开更多
This study aimed to identify the effectiveness of explicit vocabulary instruction on productive vocabulary learning in writing among intermediate school learners in Saudi Arabia,verify the existence of any statistical...This study aimed to identify the effectiveness of explicit vocabulary instruction on productive vocabulary learning in writing among intermediate school learners in Saudi Arabia,verify the existence of any statistically significant differences at the significance level of 0.01 between the mean scores of the post-test of the control group and the experimental group in the vocabulary test,and verify the existence of any statistically significant differences at the significance level of 0.01 between the mean scores of the pre-and post-test of the experimental group in the vocabulary test in favor of the post-test.The study community consisted of all intermediate school students in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,while the study sample included 30 students.The experimental method was adopted to identify the effectiveness of explicit vocabulary instruction on productive vocabulary learning in writing and the achievement test was used as the study tool.The study reached many results including there were no statistically significant differences at the significance level of 0.01 between the mean scores of the post-test of the control group and the experimental group in the vocabulary test and there were no statistically significant differences at the significance level of 0.01 between the mean scores of the pre-and post-test of the experimental group in the vocabulary test in favor of the post-test.According to these results,some recommendations and proposals were made including training English teachers at the intermediate school level in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,on explicit vocabulary instruction and conducting future researches on the trends of English teachers at the intermediate school level,in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,regarding the adoption of explicit vocabulary instruction while teaching the English language.展开更多
Vocabulary notebooks relates to a notebook kept by each individual student with the aim of learning and expanding new vocabularies.Such vocabulary learning approach has been advocated for many years,and its advantages...Vocabulary notebooks relates to a notebook kept by each individual student with the aim of learning and expanding new vocabularies.Such vocabulary learning approach has been advocated for many years,and its advantages have been proved by many language teaching professionals.展开更多
The purpose of the paper is to study retention of vocabulary acquired incidentally on task-induced involvement by senior middle school students. Grade two of senior middle students participated in the experiments, tes...The purpose of the paper is to study retention of vocabulary acquired incidentally on task-induced involvement by senior middle school students. Grade two of senior middle students participated in the experiments, testing whether retention of vocabulary acquired incidentally is contingent on amount of task-induced involvement.Using short-and long term, namely immediate posttest and delayed posttest, retention of twelve unfamiliar words was investigated in three learning tasks (reading, reading plus fill-in and writing) with varying degrees of “involvement load”- various combinations of need, search and evaluation. The results of the experiment partially support the Involvement Load Hypothesis: retention in the writing group was higher than that in the reading plus fill-in group; retention in the reading plus fill-in group was higher than that in the reading group. The results are discussed in light of the construct of task-induced involvement.展开更多
This paper makes an analysis of the cognitive nature of metaphor, expounds the view that metaphor is the necessity of cognitive process of vocabulary and reading teaching, especially for the English major. By employin...This paper makes an analysis of the cognitive nature of metaphor, expounds the view that metaphor is the necessity of cognitive process of vocabulary and reading teaching, especially for the English major. By employing some typical examples from the English-major textbooks, it advances how to train and raise specific teaching ways by utilizing metaphorical thinking.展开更多
There is a positive transfer from native language vocabulary learning strategy to that of the second language. The comparison between them shows that the traditional Chinese character learning strategies have profound...There is a positive transfer from native language vocabulary learning strategy to that of the second language. The comparison between them shows that the traditional Chinese character learning strategies have profound effect on English vocabulary learning on the basis of morphology, lexicon as well as discourse categories. If the mutual effect can be applied in English vocabulary learning effectively, positive transfer emerges.展开更多
The transfer of mother tongue has always been influencing students in second language acquisition.This paper attempts to analyze the negative transfer in vocabulary of non-English majors in vocational colleges and bri...The transfer of mother tongue has always been influencing students in second language acquisition.This paper attempts to analyze the negative transfer in vocabulary of non-English majors in vocational colleges and briefly proposes some strategies to reduce the negative transfer of mother tongue.展开更多
The present study attempts to investigate Chinese non-English majors' vocabulary learning strategies.The descriptive statistics is carried out on the learners' vocabulary learning strategies;a correlational st...The present study attempts to investigate Chinese non-English majors' vocabulary learning strategies.The descriptive statistics is carried out on the learners' vocabulary learning strategies;a correlational study is conducted between the students' vocabulary learning strategies and their vocabulary test scores.The result shows that students still prefer to learn vocabulary through the traditional way and that the dictionary strategies and rehearsal strategies are negatively related to vocabulary test scores,while all the other five categories are positively related to them.The pedagogical implications of this study are suggested for college teachers' instructions of vocabulary learning strategies.展开更多
The prototype theory suggests that many metal concepts we have are really prototypes.It claims that children first learn words that are "basic" because they reflect aspects of the world,prototypes, which sta...The prototype theory suggests that many metal concepts we have are really prototypes.It claims that children first learn words that are "basic" because they reflect aspects of the world,prototypes, which stand out automatically from the rest of what they see.Basic level words should be taught first.展开更多
Vocabulary is the core of language learning.The efficiency of vocabulary learning may influence language learning outcome.Vocabulary learning strategies can help the learners to learn vocabulary more efficiently,and t...Vocabulary is the core of language learning.The efficiency of vocabulary learning may influence language learning outcome.Vocabulary learning strategies can help the learners to learn vocabulary more efficiently,and they are very useful and beneficial for language learners.This paper synthesizes the research on vocabulary learning strategies in ESL and EFL learning,including the studies on the definitions of vocabulary learning strategies,classifications of vocabulary learning strategies and previous main research areas.The previous research areas mainly involve in the following aspects:patterns and taxonomies of vocabulary learning strategies,gender difference and vocabulary learning strategies,language proficiency and vocabulary learning strategies,major or disciplinary difference and vocabulary learning strategies,vocabulary learning strategies used frequently and effectively,vocabulary learning strategies and learning outcomes,and vocabulary learning strategy training.展开更多
Nowadays,more and more university students have Teacher’s Book for College English. They know answers of exercises from it before they do them. Some of them just copy down the right answers and wait for teacher’s pr...Nowadays,more and more university students have Teacher’s Book for College English. They know answers of exercises from it before they do them. Some of them just copy down the right answers and wait for teacher’s praise. In this situation, College English teachers should redesign the exercises after each unit so that students will be interested and involved in learning. This study thus suggests several ways to redesign the vocabulary exercises from “ College English". It expects, on the one hand, to raise College English teachers’ awareness of the necessity to change the exercises. On the other hand, it expects to give them an inspiration, and example of designing more appropriate exercises so as to reinforce students’ vocabulary and enhance their language awareness.展开更多
As one of the important phases of language acquisition process, vocabulary acquisition has great impact on one＇s language competence and communication competence. However, there are still some problems in students＇ ...As one of the important phases of language acquisition process, vocabulary acquisition has great impact on one＇s language competence and communication competence. However, there are still some problems in students＇ vocabulary acquisition. This paper first discusses the current problems in vocabulary teaching, and then analyzes some laws in vocabulary acquisition, and at last it discusses the advantages of making use of Internet in vocabulary teaching, which aims to find a possible solution to the problems.展开更多
文摘The interplay of academic atmosphere,learning motivation,and strategies inherently influences English learning.Effective vocabulary acquisition strategies significantly influence the achievements of English acquisition.Vocabulary mastery,a cornerstone of middle school English education,raises a critical question:How can vocabulary strategies optimize students’memory,understanding,and vocabulary application?This article elaborates on the importance and characteristics of vocabulary learning in Chinese junior high schools,analyzes definitions and theories of learning strategies,and proposes specific vocabulary approaches tailored to junior high school students in rural-urban fringe areas.
基金supported by National Social Science Fund of China(No.24BYY048)International Chinese Language Education Research Program(No.23YH17B)Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(No.23JNLH10)。
文摘The advantage of Chinese-as-a-heritage-language(CHL)learners in acquiring Chinese has been widely recognized.However,it is still unclear whether the effect of CHL background on Chinese receptive vocabulary breadth varies across different countries.To address this gap,the present study recruited 232 Chinese language learners(half were CHL learners)from Indonesia and Thailand and administered a Chinese vocabulary proficiency test.The results of regression analysis revealed an interaction effect between country and CHL background on vocabulary breadth,with the contribution of CHL background to vocabulary breadth more robust in the Indonesian group than that in the Thai group.Interviews were then conducted to explore the factors that might influence such an interaction effect.Analysis of the interview data found that the influencing factors could be categorized into four themes,including individual differences,family background,Chinese language education and socio-cultural factors.The overall results were discussed within the framework of ecological system theory,and pedagogical implications for CHL learners were proposed.
文摘This paper concentrates on the depth of vocabulary knowledge and vocabulary learning metacognitive strategies used by Chinese non-English majors in an independent college.Results show the depth of vocabulary knowledge of the subjects only reaches the passing level.And metacognitive strategies are correlated significantly with the depth of vocabulary knowledge.
基金Interim Achievements of the“Yingying Technology Empowerment–Application-Oriented Talent Enhancement Project at Changchun College of Electronic Technology”under the Fourth Phase of the 2024 Ministry of Education’s Employment-Education Collaboration Project(Project Number:2024121188944Project Leader:Chunhua Ren)+3 种基金Interim Achievements of the“Directional Cultivation Project for Composite Talents at Changchun College of Electronic Technology”under the Fourth Phase of the 2024 Ministry of Education’s Supply-Demand Matching and Employment-Education Cultivation Program(Project Number:2024121107571Project Leader:Chunhua Ren)Interim Achievements of the“Research on the Cultivation Path of Craftsmanship Spirit among University Teachers in the Context of Industry-University Collaboration”under the 2025 Ministry of Education’s Industry-University Cooperative Education Project(Project Number:2505164755Project Leader:Chunhua Ren)。
文摘The paper aims to examine the application of multimedia technology in expanding vocabulary in second language acquisition.Incorporating innovative technology such as mobile applications,gaming applications,websites,and other related online tools has increased learners’vocabulary mastery,engagement,and motivation levels.Interactional processes like media-embedded objects,teach-learning capacity algorithms,and feedback help learners receive the course in a personalized way that considers individual learning patterns or abilities.However,there are the following challenges:accessibility issues,total reliance on technology,and issues related to privacy.The following challenges affecting learning that arise from using gadgets:the digital divide,limited device access,and environmental issues that may distract a learner in a technology-enabled environment.Moreover,the security issue for data and the ethical question of users’information remain important too.Hence,the paper provides arguments that although these technologies contribute significantly to vocabulary acquisition,the challenge that emerges should be addressed by integrating technology in teaching and learning alongside conventional methods for vocabulary acquisition,which is a practical language acquisition tool that should not be monopolized.
基金supported by CAFUC(ZHMH 2022-005)Key Laboratory of Flight Techniques and Flight Safety(FZ2022ZZ06)Flight Technology and Flight Safety of Civil Aviation Administration of China(FZ2022KF10).
文摘Dear Editor,This letter proposes an innovative open-vocabulary 3D scene understanding model based on visual-language model.By efficiently integrating 3D point cloud data,image data,and text data,our model effectively overcomes the segmentation problem[1],[2]of traditional models dealing with unknown categories[3].By deeply learning the deep semantic mapping between vision and language,the network significantly improves its ability to recognize unlabeled categories and exceeds current state-of-the-art methods in the task of scene understanding in open-vocabulary.
文摘Through a survey-based approach including questionnaire surveys and teaching experiments,this paper studies the effects of mind mapping on students’vocabulary mastery,learning strategies and learning interest in junior high school English vocabulary teaching.The study conducted over three months with two parallel classes,one as the experimental group and the other as the control group.The results show that integrating mind maps can improve students’vocabulary and spelling accuracy,promote autonomous learning,and increase interest in vocabulary acquisition.Finally,this paper puts forward some suggestions on cultivating diversified thinking,student-centered teaching and applying interdisciplinary mind mapping to help teachers improve students’vocabulary ability in junior high school English teaching.
文摘Vocabulary, as the information carrier, plays an indispensable role of language. Likely, vocabulary learning is a significant part in English learning, so vocabulary acquisition becomes one of the hottest SLA research fields. This study tests the vocabulary size of 61 first- year students in Jiangsu Maritime Institute by applying the adjusted Nation's Vocabulary Level Test(VLT), laying basis for further researches and studies on vocabulary acquisition and development of those students.
文摘The vocabulary learning strategies are very common in English learning. Basing on O'Malley & Chamot's classification framework of vocabulary learning strategies, the present study conducts research by the questionnaires and interviews of junior Business English Majors to know the current real situation of business English vocabulary learning strategies used by business English Majors. After analyzing and discussing the problems which are reflected in the questionnaire and interview, the researcher puts forward some suggestions on vocabulary learning and teaching in Business English. The researcher hopes it is helpful for Business English Majors to learn Business English vocabulary.
文摘This study aimed to identify the effectiveness of explicit vocabulary instruction on productive vocabulary learning in writing among intermediate school learners in Saudi Arabia,verify the existence of any statistically significant differences at the significance level of 0.01 between the mean scores of the post-test of the control group and the experimental group in the vocabulary test,and verify the existence of any statistically significant differences at the significance level of 0.01 between the mean scores of the pre-and post-test of the experimental group in the vocabulary test in favor of the post-test.The study community consisted of all intermediate school students in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,while the study sample included 30 students.The experimental method was adopted to identify the effectiveness of explicit vocabulary instruction on productive vocabulary learning in writing and the achievement test was used as the study tool.The study reached many results including there were no statistically significant differences at the significance level of 0.01 between the mean scores of the post-test of the control group and the experimental group in the vocabulary test and there were no statistically significant differences at the significance level of 0.01 between the mean scores of the pre-and post-test of the experimental group in the vocabulary test in favor of the post-test.According to these results,some recommendations and proposals were made including training English teachers at the intermediate school level in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,on explicit vocabulary instruction and conducting future researches on the trends of English teachers at the intermediate school level,in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,regarding the adoption of explicit vocabulary instruction while teaching the English language.
文摘Vocabulary notebooks relates to a notebook kept by each individual student with the aim of learning and expanding new vocabularies.Such vocabulary learning approach has been advocated for many years,and its advantages have been proved by many language teaching professionals.
文摘The purpose of the paper is to study retention of vocabulary acquired incidentally on task-induced involvement by senior middle school students. Grade two of senior middle students participated in the experiments, testing whether retention of vocabulary acquired incidentally is contingent on amount of task-induced involvement.Using short-and long term, namely immediate posttest and delayed posttest, retention of twelve unfamiliar words was investigated in three learning tasks (reading, reading plus fill-in and writing) with varying degrees of “involvement load”- various combinations of need, search and evaluation. The results of the experiment partially support the Involvement Load Hypothesis: retention in the writing group was higher than that in the reading plus fill-in group; retention in the reading plus fill-in group was higher than that in the reading group. The results are discussed in light of the construct of task-induced involvement.
文摘This paper makes an analysis of the cognitive nature of metaphor, expounds the view that metaphor is the necessity of cognitive process of vocabulary and reading teaching, especially for the English major. By employing some typical examples from the English-major textbooks, it advances how to train and raise specific teaching ways by utilizing metaphorical thinking.
文摘There is a positive transfer from native language vocabulary learning strategy to that of the second language. The comparison between them shows that the traditional Chinese character learning strategies have profound effect on English vocabulary learning on the basis of morphology, lexicon as well as discourse categories. If the mutual effect can be applied in English vocabulary learning effectively, positive transfer emerges.
文摘The transfer of mother tongue has always been influencing students in second language acquisition.This paper attempts to analyze the negative transfer in vocabulary of non-English majors in vocational colleges and briefly proposes some strategies to reduce the negative transfer of mother tongue.
文摘The present study attempts to investigate Chinese non-English majors' vocabulary learning strategies.The descriptive statistics is carried out on the learners' vocabulary learning strategies;a correlational study is conducted between the students' vocabulary learning strategies and their vocabulary test scores.The result shows that students still prefer to learn vocabulary through the traditional way and that the dictionary strategies and rehearsal strategies are negatively related to vocabulary test scores,while all the other five categories are positively related to them.The pedagogical implications of this study are suggested for college teachers' instructions of vocabulary learning strategies.
文摘The prototype theory suggests that many metal concepts we have are really prototypes.It claims that children first learn words that are "basic" because they reflect aspects of the world,prototypes, which stand out automatically from the rest of what they see.Basic level words should be taught first.
文摘Vocabulary is the core of language learning.The efficiency of vocabulary learning may influence language learning outcome.Vocabulary learning strategies can help the learners to learn vocabulary more efficiently,and they are very useful and beneficial for language learners.This paper synthesizes the research on vocabulary learning strategies in ESL and EFL learning,including the studies on the definitions of vocabulary learning strategies,classifications of vocabulary learning strategies and previous main research areas.The previous research areas mainly involve in the following aspects:patterns and taxonomies of vocabulary learning strategies,gender difference and vocabulary learning strategies,language proficiency and vocabulary learning strategies,major or disciplinary difference and vocabulary learning strategies,vocabulary learning strategies used frequently and effectively,vocabulary learning strategies and learning outcomes,and vocabulary learning strategy training.
文摘Nowadays,more and more university students have Teacher’s Book for College English. They know answers of exercises from it before they do them. Some of them just copy down the right answers and wait for teacher’s praise. In this situation, College English teachers should redesign the exercises after each unit so that students will be interested and involved in learning. This study thus suggests several ways to redesign the vocabulary exercises from “ College English". It expects, on the one hand, to raise College English teachers’ awareness of the necessity to change the exercises. On the other hand, it expects to give them an inspiration, and example of designing more appropriate exercises so as to reinforce students’ vocabulary and enhance their language awareness.
文摘As one of the important phases of language acquisition process, vocabulary acquisition has great impact on one＇s language competence and communication competence. However, there are still some problems in students＇ vocabulary acquisition. This paper first discusses the current problems in vocabulary teaching, and then analyzes some laws in vocabulary acquisition, and at last it discusses the advantages of making use of Internet in vocabulary teaching, which aims to find a possible solution to the problems.
