The present study is to explore the main obstacles to the development of lexical competence in advanced English study. It is conducted by having questionnaires and interviews among 220 students and by analyzing the te...The present study is to explore the main obstacles to the development of lexical competence in advanced English study. It is conducted by having questionnaires and interviews among 220 students and by analyzing the teaching materials. The findings to the study indicate that the main obstacles are caused from the following aspects： neglecting the importance of developing vocabulary in the advanced study; neglecting activating the students＇ directing sense and detecting sense to difficult words; low rate of word recurrence in the teaching materials; requiring distinguishing the shade of the difference between synonyms excessively and too meticulously; overemphasizing the ＂negative transfer＂ of mother tongue; and some other obstacles to the development of lexical competence.展开更多
文摘The present study is to explore the main obstacles to the development of lexical competence in advanced English study. It is conducted by having questionnaires and interviews among 220 students and by analyzing the teaching materials. The findings to the study indicate that the main obstacles are caused from the following aspects： neglecting the importance of developing vocabulary in the advanced study; neglecting activating the students＇ directing sense and detecting sense to difficult words; low rate of word recurrence in the teaching materials; requiring distinguishing the shade of the difference between synonyms excessively and too meticulously; overemphasizing the ＂negative transfer＂ of mother tongue; and some other obstacles to the development of lexical competence.
