Discussion on University English Vocabulary Teaching

Vocabulary is the foundation of language systems and the students' vocabulary ability directly affects their ability of listening, speaking, reading, writing and translating.However, the traditional college English teaching of vocabulary can't meet the needs of memorizing words for students. Memorizing words is a heavy burden of students.Teaching practice shows that using the etymology of auxiliary teaching in the process of teaching can improve the students' learning interest and deepen their memory,also can improve the efficiency of vocabulary memory,which isnot only help students enlarge their vocabulary, but also can strengthen the students understand the English national cultures.In this paper, we start from the importance of vocabulary teaching and the present situation of college English vocabulary teaching,we talk about the feasibility of using etymology college English vocabulary teaching strategies based on the etymology related knowledgein this paper in order to improve the English skills for students.