Abstract In English language learning, vocabulary learning is the key point which affects students’ language abilities a lot。 Without adequate vocabulary, students cannot do listening, speaking, reading and writing smoothly。 The application of proper strategy is the important method to teaching and learning vocabulary effectively。 Meta-cognitive strategy can improve students’ self-study ability。Besides, it helps students to plan, adjust and monitor their study process。 Finally, students should evaluate their learning results。 75188

This thesis is based on the meta-cognitive strategies。 It discusses the process of the application of meta-cognitive strategy in high school English vocabulary teaching。 During the process, teachers can develop students’ awareness of meta-cognitive strategy by training them。 They are expected to guide students’ to plan, monitor and evaluate the whole process of learning vocabulary to improve their ability of learning vocabulary。 

Keywords: meta-cognitive strategy; vocabulary; high school vocabulary  teaching

摘要在英语语言学习中，词汇是长时间影响学生语言能力的关键点。如果没有足够的词汇量，学生就不能顺利进行听说读写。恰当的策略的应用是进行高效的词汇教学和学习的重要方法。元认知策略是一种可以提高学生自主学习能力的策略。它主要引导学生计划他们的学习过程，对其进行调节和监控。在最后，学生还需要对他们的学习结果进行评估。

本文以元认知策略理论为基础，探讨了元认知策略在高中英语词汇教学中的应用过程。在词汇教学过程中，教师通过训练培养学生元认知策略知识，让学生对词汇的全过程进行有效规划、监控和评价，以此提高学生的词汇学习能力。

毕业论文关键词：元认知策略；词汇；高中英语教学

Contents

1。 Introduction 1

2。 Literature Review 2

2。1 Definition and classifications of meta-cognitive strategy 2

2。2 Overseas study about vocabulary teaching and meta-cognitive strategy 4

2。3 Domestic study about vocabulary teaching and meta-cognitive strategy 5

3。 Application of Meta-cognitive Strategy in High School English Vocabulary Teaching 6

3。1 Significance of meta-cognitive strategy for vocabulary learning and teaching 6

3。2 Pre-class 7

3。3 While-class 8

3。4 After-class 10

4。 Conclusion 10

Works Cited 12

1。 Introduction 

Voice, grammar and vocabulary are the main factors which form a language, and vocabulary is the most important one among them。 The linguistician Wilkins said, “Without vocabulary, nothing can be conveyed。” The students under new curriculum standard are required to master more vocabulary and use it in daily communication smoothly。 Our country has focused on the training of passage and communicative ability which lead to the vocabulary teaching’s being ignored somewhat。 However, the requirements of vocabulary level in new curriculum standard has been improved which also makes many students and teachers recognize that the reform of vocabulary is necessary。 Therefore, it is important to implement meta-cognitive strategy in vocabulary teaching。论文网

After the college entrance examination every year, there are many students who feel that they don’t have enough vocabulary when they do English reading。 Many students are not interested in language learning originally and they find it hard to remember many words。 They meet with more and more words they don’t know which makes them lose the interest in English learning gradually or even they may abandon English learning at last。