Abstract:

ESP (English for Specific Purposes) has become more and more important due to its practicality and specialty, and many college English teachers have started to seek a new way for ESP teaching. However, the biggest obstacle for people to learn ESP is vocabulary. Therefore it is vital for teachers to help their students choose an effective vocabulary learning mode. This paper, based on the Depths of Processing Theory and the Lexical Chunk Approach, will analyze the features of the ESP vocabulary for non-English majors in the college and illustrate the ways of training students’ vocabulary learning strategies in this regard. Besides, some suggestions for the integration of the vocabulary teaching theory with the practice of teaching ESP vocabulary are proposed accordingly. It is concluded that ESP vocabulary teaching plays an important role in ESP teaching and that to effectively train students’ vocabulary learning strategies is more important than to simply teach students the new words appearing in the text.

Key words: ESP; vocabulary learning strategies; Depths of Processing Theory；Lexical Chunk Approach

摘要：

ESP由于目的明确,实用价值高,越来越受重视,许多大学英语教师已经开始在ESP的实践中寻找新的道路。词汇问题是人们学习ESP的最大障碍,因此对英语教师来说帮助学生选择有效的词汇学习策略是非常有必要的。本文基于认知加工层次理论和词汇的板块理论，分析了大学非英语专业ESP词汇特点，并提出词汇学习策略。此外，相应地提出了将ESP词汇教学实践与词汇教学理论相结合的几点建议。本文得出结论，ESP词汇教学在ESP教学中起着重要的作用，有效地培养学生的词汇学习策略比简单地教学生出现在文本单词更重要。

关键词：专门用途英语; 词汇学习策略; 认知加工层次理论；词汇的板块理论；

1. Introduction
ESP (English for Specific Purposes) generally refers to the teaching of English for a clearly practical purpose, and it is based on a rigorous needs analysis of learners. ESP came into being in the 1960s as a result of the unprecedented expansion of economy after the Second World War. The concept of ESP was first brought forward by Halliday in his book The Linguistic Sciences and Language Teaching (Halliday, 1964).  He defines ESP as English for civil servants, for policemen, for officials of the law, for dispensers and nurses, for specialists in agriculture, for engineers and fitters.