中学生英语高频词汇水平研究

A Study on English High-frequency Words by Chinese Secondary-level Students

本文对中学生英语高频词汇习得情况进行了描述和分析。结果显示，到高中毕业的时候，在总体为2555个的高频词汇中，中学生的英语高频词汇量大约在1620词左右。中学生的词汇量每年都在显著增长，但增长的幅度与英语本族语者相比，差距过大。由于输入不足和复现率低等原因，学生在不同的学习阶段，都有相当一部分接触过但未习得，或者完全没接触过的高频词。

This paper presents the results of an investigation of the acquisition of English high-frequency words by Chinese secondary-levd students. The results indicate that 1） the high-frequency vocabulary size of the students is about 1620 words out of a list of 2555 high-frequency words after 10 years＇ learning of English; 2） the vocabulary size keeps increasing significantly every year; but compared with that of the native speakers, the increasing rate is too small; 3） because of the insufficient input and recycling, the students have a considerable number of high-frequency words which they have met but not acquired or they have never been exposed to at all.