词汇学 各章节教学目标

2014-9

Teaching objectives & difficulties in learning and teaching

结合课程教学大纲（分为了解、理解、掌握三个要求）

Chapter 1 A general survey of English vocabulary

1.To understand and define “word” (many definitions);

2.To know the historical development of English vocabulary and its rapid growth today;

3.To summarize fundamental features of the basic stock of English vocabulary.

Chapter 2 Morphological structure of English words

1.To understand the ways that words are formed;

2.To grasp the information about morpheme, allomorphs, and classification of morpheme.

(Review knowledge of phoneme , e.g. assimilation辅音同化, 名词复数尾部读音规则等)

Chapter 3 Word formation (I)

1.To grasp 3 major processes of word formation

(compounding, derivation/affixation,conversion);

2.To explain, compare ROOT, STEM, BASE and can use them to analyse words;

3.To learn with examples (share learning strategies).

Chapter 4 Word formation (II)

1.To grasp 8 minor processes of word formation (acronymy, clipping, blending, back-formation,

words from proper names, neoclassical formation, miscellaneous);

2.To conduct learning strategies by studying these process of word-formation

(e acronymy, clipping, blending, back-formation in note-taking and dictation);

3.To raise cultural awareness and to grasp comprehensive knowledge through examples of

these 8 processes respectively

(e.g words from proper names; esp. words from literature).

Chapter 5 Word meaning and semantic features

1.To discuss word meaning (conventionality and motivation);

2.To discuss 2 main types of word meaning (grammatical and lexical), esp. lexical meaning

(denotative meaning & associate meanings)

3.To raise cultural awareness through associate meanings (connotative, social,stylistic,affective

meaning) with typical examples;

4.To discuss componential analysis and semantic features;

to understand the practical usage of doing componential analysis.

Chapter 6 Polysemy and homonymy

1.To know the definition of polysemy (two approaches to polysemy & two processes leading to

polysemy) and homonymy (types, sources);

2.To discuss usage/stylistic value of polysemy and homonymy (e.g. making a pun).

Chapter 7 Sense relations between words

1.To look at the sense relations between words;

(synonymy, antonymy, hyponymy)

To consider word choice by making comparison and contrast;

2.To discuss their usage;

3.To grasp semantic field (e.g. ways of organising words into areas, collocations of words in

the same semantic field).

Chapter 8 Meaning and context

1.To understand polysemic words and homonyms better as the two are context-bound;

2.To discuss types of contexts and the vital role of context in determination of word meaning;

3.To learn suggested ways for correcting comprehension of word meaning;

4.To learn vocabulary according to context/setting (e.g. authentic materials/exercises regarding

to campus life).

Chapter 9 Changes in word meaning

1.To see how word meaning changes;

2.To know causes of changes in meaning;

3.To grasp 4 tendencies in semantic change;

4.To discuss semantic development or change resulting from the figurative use of words

(metaphor, metonymy);

5.To summarise figurative uses of words (with a review of word phenomena in chapter 4, 5, 6,

7 ).

Chapter 10 English idioms

1.To know the definition idioms;

2.To notice characteristics of idioms;

3.To appreciate and to conduct syntactic, structural and stylistic analysis of idioms

(syntactic function, transformational restrictions, collocative restrictions, structurally variability, stylistic features).

Chapter 11 American English

1.To grasp the growth of American English

3 periods (before independence, from independence to early 19th century, from the early 19th