现代社会正在向国际化、全球化发展,英语越来越成为人们工作交往中广泛使用的一种语言。初中是英语学习的关键时期,必须下功夫。新课标指出:英语教学要从学生的兴趣出发,发展学生的综合语言应用能力。学生要想提高综合语言能力,必须要掌握一定的词汇量。在初中英语教学中,一个较大的学习难关就是增加学生的词汇量,学生普遍感到单词难记。如何提高学生的词汇量?笔者总结出四个记忆法以供借鉴。一、即时记忆法教育心理学研究表明,人脑对识记过的事物都能以某种方式留下印痕,这种印痕有三种:即时、短时、长时记忆。即时 Modern society is developing towards internationalization and globalization, and English has increasingly become a widely used language in people’s working contacts. Junior high school is a critical period of English learning, we must work hard. The new curriculum standard pointed out: English teaching should start from the students ’interest and develop students’ comprehensive language application ability. Students want to improve the comprehensive language skills, we must master a certain amount of vocabulary. In junior high school English teaching, a greater difficulty in learning is to increase the vocabulary of students, students generally feel the word hard to remember. How to improve students’ vocabulary? I summed up four memory method for reference. First, the real-time memory method Educational psychology studies have shown that the human brain can remember things in some way to leave imprints, there are three kinds of imprints: instant, short-term, long-term memory. immediate