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外国语学院英语系 英语学术论文写作课程论文 题目: Comparative Study of English Vocabulary Learning Strategies Between English Majors and Non-English Majors 姓名:古文婷 学号:201152010507 班级:2011级5班 日期:2013年12月评语成绩教师签名: Abstract…i 摘要…ii Introduction

1 literature review

1 The significance of the study

2 Aims of the study

4 Research Methods

4 Research questions

4 Subjects

5 Instrument

5 Date Collection and Analysis

6 3.

Results

6 3.1 Vocabulary Learning Strategies Mainly Used by the English Learners…. …...6 3.2 The different strategies that separately used by English majors and Non-English majors

8 3.2.1 The Differences Based on the Specific Vocabulary Learning Strategies

9 3.2.2 The Differences Based on the Description of Vocabulary Learning Strategies and Reasons

10 3.2.2.1 Regulation Strategies

12 3.2.2.2 Rehearsal Strategies

12 3.2.2.3 Encoding Strategies

12 3.2.2.4 Activation Strategies

13 4. Conclusion…13 The answer for the research questions

13 Inspiration and suggestion

13 References…15 Appendix

17 Abstract This paper focused on the differences between the English majors and Non-English majors in using English vocabulary learning strategies. There are four parts in the paper. The first part begins with the brief introduction to the state of this field. The second part concerns the description of the research methods. The third part is the main body of the paper with the date analysis and results. The last part is the conclusion of the results. The results indicate that, as to vocabulary learning strategies, some strategies like Regulation Strategy, Encoding Strategy and Activation Strategy are more frequent used by English majors than Non-English majors. While strategies like Rehearsal Strategy is very welcomed and widely used by Non-English majors. Furthermore, we find in this paper that English majors are more objective while Non-English majors are more subjective when they choose to use English vocabulary learning strategies. At the end of the paper, the study concluded an effective English vocabulary learning strategy that is to the benefit of both English majors and Non-English majors. Key words: vocabulary learning strategies;

English majors;

Non-English majors;

Cooperation 摘要 本篇论文以问卷调查的形式,研究了英语专业与非英语专业在英语词汇学习策略运用上的不同.研究结果表明英语词汇学习策略在英语专业和非英语专业学生中得到较为广泛的运用但在使用中存在明显的差别.首先,非英语专业学生相对于英语专业学生来说使用重复策略更为频繁.其次,英语专业学生在编码策略,管理策略以及活用策略的使用上比非英语专业更为活跃和主动.论文随后从课程设置和学习态度两方面分析了这些差异产生的原因.最后,论文基于这些差异和原因提出了合作学习这一既有利于英语专业学生也有利于非英语专业学生的词汇学习策略. 关键词:英语词汇学习策略差异 英语专业 非英语专业 合作学习 Introduction 1.1 literature review Without grammar very little can be conveyed, without vocabulary nothing can be conveyed .the famous linguistic D.A.Willkins said. Vocabulary is one of the basic elements of language. The size of vocabulary will greatly influence the effective communication and expression in English. The vocabulary size is one criterion for measuring one'

s English competence. Therefore, as to a English learner, the size of vocabulary is extremely important. While the size of vocabulary is closely related to the vocabulary learning strategies. According to the research, using different forms of vocabulary learning strategies would help students to understand, memory and apply vocabulary better.(Yao, 2000) Therefore people gradually pay more and more attention to how to improve the vocabulary acquisition and vocabulary memory by using different kinds of strategies. For many years there are a lot of western scholars who have done many studies on the vocabulary learning strategies. O'