STUDIES IN MENTAL LEXICON AND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR ENGLISH VOCABULARY TEACHING

• 来源期刊: 中国应用语言学：英文版
• 学科: 文学
• 年，卷（期）: 1998,（2）
• 页码范围: 69-72
• 页数: 4页
• 分类号: H319

摘要

Introduction Vocabulary is one of the indispensable components of the language system, and researchers have found that there exists a close relationship between vocabulary and other components in a language system. However, vocabulary is thought to be the most difficult component of language knowledge for a learner to grasp. Gorman (1979) pointed out that there was evidence showing that as students become more proficient in a second language, problems caused specifically by syntactical variation become less significant (cited in Crow and Quigley, 1985: 499). That is to say, vocabulary becomes a major problem in the