一、引言Psychology of Reading课程令我对词汇以及词汇教学有了一定的认识。词汇对于阅读的译码和理解起关键的连接作用。Haynes和Ahrens通过研究发现儿童故事读物包含的词汇数量比黄金档电视剧或大学生之间对话所涉及的词汇量要多50%以上。在母语词汇的习得过程中,译码能力对于年纪较小的学习者的词汇增长是非常重要的,而年纪较大的学生则需要通过阅读来扩充词汇量。自三年级开始,学生的母语词汇量以每年3000词的速度增长,但 I. INTRODUCTION The Psychology of Reading course has given me a certain understanding of vocabulary and vocabulary teaching. Vocabulary plays a key role in the decoding and understanding of reading. Haynes and Ahrens found through research that children’s storybooks contain more than 50% more vocabulary than a prime-time TV drama or dialogue among college students. In the process of acquiring the mother tongue vocabulary, the decoding ability is very important for the younger learners’ vocabulary growth, while the older students need to expand the vocabulary through reading. Since the third grade, students’ native vocabulary has grown at a rate of 3,000 words per year, but