从词义关系角度探索英语词汇教学_英语论文

A Probe into Vocabulary Teaching from the Perspective of Sense Relations 

摘要

英语词汇是英语学习中的一个重要组成部分，对学习者而言至关重要。

语义关系在研讨词语的意义中有着极其重要的作用。这些语义关系可以被分为同义关系，反义关系，上下义关系以及词汇搭配关系。我们将不同理论运用于不同语义关系的词汇教学。将语义成分分析理论运用于同义词教学，将标记理论运用于反义词的教学，将基本层次范畴理论运用于上下义词的教学，在一些基本原则的指导下进行搭配词教学。

在分析了运用于词汇教学的各种语义关系后，我们发现了一个综合各种语义关系进行词汇教学的具体步骤。而这一步骤又吻合于Brown 和Payne的词汇教学模式：碰遇新词，掌握词形，构建语义关系，巩固新词，应用新词。

我们进行了一个实验来检验这个教学步骤的效果，结果证明，构建词汇间的语义关系是一种有用高效的词汇教学方法。

关键词：语义关系；语义场理论；词汇教学；词汇意义

Abstract

English vocabulary plays a significant role in English acquisition , and is of critical importance to English learners.

Lexical sense relations have assumed an important part in the discussion of word meaning. There are four common sense relations: synonymy, antonymy, hyponymy, collocation. We make use of different theories to guide the teaching of lexical items with different semantic relations. We apply the theory of semantic-component analysis in synonym teaching, the theory of markedness in antonym teaching and the theory of basic-level category in superordinate and hyponym teaching. Collocations are taught under the guide of some essential principles.

Analyzing various semantic relations employed in vocabulary teaching, we find a concrete procedure for vocabulary teaching with the help of the integration of various sense relations, whose process is also in pair with Brown and Payne's model of vocabulary teaching: encountering new words, acquiring their forms, constructing their sense relations, consolidating and applying them .

We carried out an experiment to measure the effect of the sense relation strategy. The results of the experiment prove that constructing semantic relations of words is useful and efficient in vocabulary teaching.

Key words: sense relations; semantic field theory; vocabulary teaching; word meaning

Contents

1. Introduction 1

2.Literature Review 1

3. Lexical Semantic Relations 2

3.1 Synonymy 2

3.2 Antonymy 4

3.3 Hyponymy 5

3.4 Collocation 7

4.A Integrated Pedagogical Procedure 8

4.1 A integrated pedagogical procedure 8

4.1.1 Encountering new words 8

4.1.2 Acquiring the word form 9

4.1.3 Constructing sense relations 9

4.1.4 Consolidating 9

4.1.5 Applying the words 10

5. An Experimental Study 10

5.1 Purpose 10

5.2 Subjects 11

5.3 Material 11

5.4 Procedure 11

5.5 Result 12

6.Conclusion 13

Works Cited 14

Appendix 15