While in the process of vocabulary teaching in junior middle school, there are a lot of loopholes and shortcomings and the status quo is not optimistic. First of all, vocabulary teaching becomes a mere formality, and doesn’t get enough attention. The teacher lack  effective vocabulary teaching strategies. Second, there are heavy isolation and light context creation when teaching vocabulary. And students memorize vocabulary with blindness and randomness. Again, the teacher ignores the cultivation of student's emotion attitude and the ability of autonomic learning. The situation of vocabulary teaching is not optimistic. In order to improve the effect of vocabulary teaching, we need to keep trying new teaching strategy, and really solve the bottleneck of English teaching.

The intention of this paper is to explore the teaching and learning strategies of vocabulary in junior middle school. This paper is pided into five parts. The first part is an introduction to the paper, including the elaboration of the current situation of English vocabulary teaching and the brief introduction to the framework of the paper; the second part is theoretical background, in which the related theory of vocabulary teaching is introduced, and the importance of vocabulary teaching is emphasized; in the third part the problems existing in the teaching of vocabulary are pointed out and analyzed; vocabulary teaching strategies are put forward in the fourth part, the last part is the summary of the paper.