The English Movies' Role in Vocabulary Acquisition

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1、TheEnglishMovies'RoleinVocabularyAcquisitionⅠ.IntroductionA.VocabularyAcquisitionVocabularyisthebuildingblockoflanguageskills，itplaysaimportantroleinlearningaforeignlanguage.Vocabularyisthebuildingmaterialofalanguage.Abuildingcannotbeconstructedwithoutbri

2、cks,soalanguageisunconceivablewithoutvocabulary.JustasWilkinscomments:"Whilewithoutgrammarverylittlecanbeconveyed,withoutVocabularynothingcanbeconveyed"(citedinWang,2006).Inlanguagelearning，vocabularylearninghasalwaysbeenthemostchallengingpart.Thestudyonv

3、ocabularylearningmayshedlightonunderstandingofvocabularyproficiencyofdifferentlearnersandmayhelptosmooththelearningprocess.Researchershomeandabroadhavedoneconsiderableworkinthisfield.Inchina,theEnglishlanguageteachingprofessionalsofullyrealizesthegreatimp

4、ortanceofvocabularylearningalongsidetheteachingandlearningofgrammar.Whatmanylearnersconcernaboutishowtoremovetheimpedimentofvocabularyintheacquisitionofthetargetlanguage.Forinstance,intermediateandadvancedlearnersmaywatchEnglishmoviesjustforpleasureormayu

5、setheforeignlanguagetoachieveaparticulargoal，andtheymay"pickup"certainwordsintheprocessoftheactivity.Thismethodof"pickingup"wordswasnamedincidentalvocabularylearningfortheacquisitionofthewordsistheresultofotheractivities.Intentionalvocabularylearning,ordi

6、rectvocabularylearningisadvocatedinearlyhistoryofEFL.Itcontainssuchlearningstrategiesassemanticmapping,keywordmethod,paired-associatelistsetc.Incidentalvocabularyacquisitionisanewconceptinrecent20years.Thetermof"incidentalvocabularyacquisition"wasfirstadv

7、ocatedbyNagy,HermanandAndersonin1985,referringtothelearningwithouttheintenttolearnbasedontheirobservationofchildren'sL1vocabularyexpansion.16B.EnglishandEnglishmoviesEnglishisoneoftheworld’smostwidelyusedlanguages.Asasecondlanguage,Englishisoftennecessary

8、forbusiness,education,informationandotheractivitiesinagreatmanycountriessuchasIndia,Pakistanandsoon.Atinternationalsportsmeets,atmeetingsofscientistsfromdifferentcountriesandattalksofwritersandartistsfromthecornerso