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Strategies on English Synonym Teaching in Senior High School in the Light of Social Constructivism

Author(s) -

Dong Tian,

Xiaolin Lin

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

international journal of english language and literature studies

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.136

H-Index - 3

eISSN - 2306-9910

pISSN - 2306-0646

DOI - 10.18488/journal.23.2017.63.63.68

Subject(s) - synonym (taxonomy) , vocabulary , constructivism (international relations) , mathematics education , face (sociological concept) , computer science , psychology , linguistics , philosophy , ecology , biology , international relations , politics , political science , law , genus

Synonym teaching is one of the important and difficult tasks of English vocabulary teaching in senior high schools. Teachers in senior high schools face various difficulties during the synonym teaching process. This paper aims to present some effective teaching strategies to promote the synonym teaching to achieve fruitful results. The paper introduces the definition and classification of synonym so that teachers could have a thorough and comprehensive understanding of synonym. The teaching of synonym requires a pedagogic theory as a guide. The authors adopt social constructivism, advanced by Martin Williams and Robert L. Burden in 1997, to guide synonym teaching. Further, in the light of social constructivism, the authors propose teaching principles and strategies for classroom synonym teaching, which will be of great help for senior high school synonym teaching.

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