Vocabulary is the basis of English learning. At present, many students lack effective memory of English vocabulary when learning English vocabulary. As teachers, they should attach great importance to this issue and conduct research and practice on effective strategies in vocabulary teaching, so that students can understand some rules of word formation, spelling and spelling. Mastering the skills of vocabulary collocation and context application can help students master scientific and effective learning strategies, form good learning skills, improve their memory ability of vocabulary and lay a good foundation for lifelong learning. Here, the author will talk about some ways to remember words skillfully for your reference.
First, learn the phonetic words well.
The first stop of English learning is pronunciation learning. For students, memorizing words often takes up a lot of time in learning English, and English teachers also spend a lot of classroom time in order to teach students to read words. This makes the teaching of phonetic symbols particularly important. Teaching students phonetic symbols is equivalent to teaching students how to learn words, instead of spending a lot of time reading phonetic symbols to students every day to let them recognize words.
Phonetic symbols indicate how to pronounce this word, which is equivalent to Chinese pinyin. Phonetic symbols can help students record all kinds of phonemes, and each phoneme corresponds to a certain letter, thus mastering certain rules. Students can not only read words by looking at phonetic symbols, but also spell words by listening. First of all, teachers can ask students to divide syllables correctly, find out the pronunciation of vowels and combinations in words, and spell with the help of recording, so that they don't need to spend too much time reading words in class. When students hear a strange word, they can quickly record its pronunciation with phonetic symbols for future reference. Secondly, using the pronunciation law of letters and letter combinations, students can master the spelling form of words, which is convenient for them to remember words for a long time.
Second, create situational words
The task of English course is to stimulate and cultivate students' interest in learning English, so that students can establish self-confidence, form good study habits and effective learning strategies, and develop the ability of autonomous learning and cooperative spirit: to enable students to master certain English knowledge and listening, speaking, reading and writing skills, and to form a certain comprehensive language use ability; Cultivate students' observation, memory, thinking, imagination and innovative spirit: help students understand the differences between the world and Chinese and western cultures, broaden their horizons, cultivate patriotism, form a healthy outlook on life, and lay a good foundation for their lifelong learning and development. "Creating an effective English teaching environment and improving students' interest in learning" is one of the requirements for English classroom teaching and one of the effective ways for us to learn words. In English vocabulary, many words express completely different meanings in different sentences and contexts, precisely because of the polysemy of vocabulary. Therefore, teaching words must be placed in a certain context, so that students can know when to use the word and the specific usage. However, in actual teaching, some teachers just teach words word by word according to the word list for convenience, and some teachers become "dictionary experts", copying the meaning of each word to students one by one, and then asking them to recite it after class. This teaching method of teaching words independently out of a certain context makes many students feel that learning words is too boring and gradually lose interest in words. Over time, they get bored. Under such psychological control, students can't be happy when they are studying, especially when they encounter difficulties, which will lead to a decline in their grades, and unsatisfactory grades will in turn aggravate their boredom and resistance. Because of improper teaching methods and incorrect learning attitude, the whole learning process has fallen into a vicious circle. Therefore, teachers must try their best to skillfully set up situations to stimulate students' interest in learning words, thus improving students' memory efficiency.
Third, remember words through context.
Polysemy often occurs in English words. If a teacher only teaches students one meaning, it will be difficult for middle school students to understand the other meanings of the word in their later studies, and some words will be misunderstood. For example, rice in English can be translated into rice, rice, rice and so on. If "rice" is used to translate words, students will use rice together with related verbs to mean breakfast, lunch and so on. And breakfast, lunch and so on have other words in English. Therefore, it is obviously not enough to simply reveal the meaning of words. This method alone can easily lead to confusion. English teachers can make the words appear many times according to the upper and lower cultural and educational words to help students understand the meaning of the words. This can reduce students' confusion and improve students' word memory ability.
Fourth, guess riddles and remember words skillfully.
Students are full of curiosity and eager to explore. If teachers make some words into riddles, let students guess the answers and then teach the words, it will stimulate students' desire to learn new words and improve their interest in learning. For example, when teaching the word "broom", the riddle I gave my students was "Don't be afraid of being dirty, hide yourself in the corner, come out for a walk, and the ground will light up again". Students immediately guess that it is a broom, and then teach it. Of course, this is a riddle in Chinese, and English is ok. Teachers can consciously collect some riddles in this field. In this way, students are willing to participate in teachers' teaching activities, thus improving teaching efficiency.
Five, intellectual incentives to remember words
The so-called intellectual stimulation, also known as brainstorming, is a teaching method first proposed by American creative scientist Osborne in 1939. Its purpose is to provide students with a time and space for imagination and thinking, and to activate various related schemas in their minds through brainstorming, such as ideas, concepts, images and impressions. When using brainstorming, teachers usually take a specific topic as the guide and encourage students to think actively and creatively. This training method arouses students' learning enthusiasm, enables them to find things related to the words they have learned in a relatively large range, cultivates their divergent thinking ability, and at the same time can constantly reproduce and use the words they have learned in new situations, thus achieving the purpose of consolidating vocabulary.
Of course, there are many ways to remember English words. In order to make students learn vocabulary interestingly and quickly, effective and diverse teaching methods are needed. This requires our teachers to analyze the learning situation, teach students in accordance with their aptitude, and let students recite words as soon as possible, so as to lay the foundation for improving their English.
Rome was not built in a day, and the cultivation of students' word memory ability can be effective in one day. Therefore, in the process of exploring how to cultivate and improve students' word memory ability, we should constantly learn and absorb English teaching theory, study teaching materials, improve our professional quality, improve and perfect English intensive reading teaching, guide students to really participate in memory practice, and enable students to acquire independent word memory ability. Only by unremitting efforts can we receive satisfactory results.