Author(s)

Jing LIU, Yuting Wang

Corresponding Author

Jing LIU

ABSTRACT

The most basic structure of language is vocabulary, and vocabulary acquisition is the most basic part of foreign language learning. Vocabulary acquisition is an important part of English language acquisition, and having a certain amount of vocabulary is the premise and foundation of learning and adapting English. Explaining the usage of words from different angles, the transmission characteristics of genotype language memes are directly applied or the same information is transmitted in different forms. English vocabulary acquisition is explored from the perspective of meme transmission, especially the achievements of productive vocabulary acquisition are relatively rare, and there is a certain research space. Based on memetics theory, this paper makes an experimental study on the effects of English receptive and productive vocabulary acquisition, trying to find a more effective way of vocabulary acquisition by comparing different types of output tasks and ways of output tasks.

KEYWORDS

Memetics, Vocabulary input, Productive vocabulary acquisition