Abstract: This study aims to prove that the task-based teaching method could be effectively used in reality in English vocabulary learning and teaching in junior high school. Through analyzing the theory of the task-based teaching method and the current situation of junior middle school vocabulary teaching in China, the writer found the task-based teaching method could be effectively used in English vocabulary teaching. In order to prove the task-based teaching method could be effectively used in reality in English vocabulary learning and teaching in junior high school, the author conducted an experiment, and the experiment data proved that the task-based teaching method in English vocabulary teaching in junior high school is beyond doubt. It could effectively develop students' English vocabulary learning ability and stimulate students' communicative motivation.

Key words: vocabulary teaching; the tasked-based teaching approach; junior school; 

CONTENTS

Abstract

摘要

1. Introduction1

2 The present situation of task-based teaching method and theory1

2.1 The foreign status of task-based teaching method

2.2 The present situation of the task-based teaching method in China

2.3 The task-based teaching method theory

3. English vocabulary teaching and research.5

  3.1 The foreign statues of English vocabulary teaching and theory

  3.2 The statues of English vocabulary teaching in China 

4. Test of the application of task-based teaching methods to English vocabulary teaching in junior high school .6

  4.1 The Research design

4.1.1 The experimental aim

4.1.2 The experimental subject

4.1.3 The experimental method and period

4.1.4 A sample lesson

4.2 The experiment and questionnaire results and data analysis

4.3 The experiment findings

5. Conclusion15

Bibliography.14

Appendix115

Appendix217

Acknowledgements18