The Application of Phonics to Vocabulary Teaching in Junior High School

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作者：胡渲

来源：《校园英语·下旬》2016年第08期

【Abstract】English teachers in Junior school should use phonics and teach their students the relations between the pronunciation and the form of words， guiding students cultivate a suitable way to remember words. In order to lay a solid foundation for students? English learning in the future，teachers help students improve their spelling and pronunciation by teaching phonics.

【Key words】phonics； junior high school； vocabulary teaching

I. The Definition of Phonics

Phonics refers to a method for teaching speakers of English to read and write that language. Phonics involves teaching how to connect the sounds of spoken English with letters or groups of letters and teaching them to blend the sounds of letters together to produce approximate pronunciations of unknown words. Phonics is a widely used method of teaching to read and decode words.

II. Influencing Factors in Junior High School English Vocabulary Learning

1. Teachers? teaching methods

English in the Junior high school plays an essential role. English teaching in primary school only pays attention to games and activities， teachers pay less attention to cu ltivate the students? spelling exercises， so that teaching can give students a short memory， students will quickly forget. Most of teachers completely teach words according to the textbook， only teach the textbook knowledge and ignore to train students? ability of thinking and ignore to expand students? knowledge.

2. Students? learning methods

①The improper memory method. Students has formed the bad learning habits that they don?t like memorizing words. Students under the pressure usually adopt the way of rote memory to study English words， and not according to their own situation to find effective memory method.

②The lack of vocabulary memory tools. According to the characteristics of English， memory tools of English words is phoneti c symbols. Students lack the supporting of “memory tools”， which eventually leads to the unideal effect of memorizing English words .