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Vocabulary teaching strategies for middle school students Abstract Vocabulary teaching is one of important and difficult parts in process of English language teaching for middle school students. For this reason, how to teach students to grasp a considerable volume of vocabulary is considered as the most important task for English language teaching. Meanwhile, students’ vocabulary size is a key factor for students to learn English well. Vocabulary is one of the basic elements in English language teaching. The size of vocabulary will greatly influence the ability of listening, speaking, reading, and writing of students as well as the ability of apprehending of students. The greater size of vocabulary, the better of learning effect. This paper will detailedly introduce several vocabulary teaching strategies: game, visual aids, word-formation, classification, the specific language context, and the word wall. These strategies which this paper introduces are aimed at enlarging vocabulary size of students, improving the ability of students to rein language as well as providing some models for teachers. Key words: vocabulary teaching; middle school students; teaching strategies 摘要 词汇是中学英语教学的重点与难点，是英语课堂教学的重要组成部分，而中学生能否学好英语的关键就在于对词汇的掌握程度。在任何语言中，词汇都处于基础地位，英语也不例外，学生的词汇量很大程度上决定着学生学习英语的成败。并且，学生的词汇量也会影响学生诸如听，说，读，写等方面的能力。事实证明，学生的词汇量越大，其学习英语的效果越佳。因此，中学英语教学最重要的任务之一就是如何让学生掌握大量的英语词汇。学生能否掌握足够量的英语词汇，不仅是学生本人的责任，更与老师的教学策略有着密不可分的关系，甚至可以说，老师的词汇教学策略高效与否决定学生词汇量的掌握程度。本文将系统地介绍游戏，直观教具，构词法，分类，具体的语境等词汇教学策略，以扩大学生的词汇量，提高学生驾驭语言的能力，以及为英语老师的词汇教学提供一些蓝本。 关键字：英语，词汇教学，中学生，教学策略 1 Introduction 1.1 Situations According to the newly enacted English curriculum standards, middle school students should proficiently grasp 1500-1600 words and 200-300 idioms as well as collocations. But, a few students can reach that level. Inadequacy in vocabulary is almost faced by all students. Even, students’ development of other as