The article sets out to inquire into the contents and methodology in contrastive studies between English and Chinese on lexical level. It begins with an overview of the new developments in modern linguistic research, then investigates and compares the major areas of vocabulary stwtdies between the two languages, examines and delimits the prospective contents to be included and proposes methods to be used in contrastive analysis in this connection based on previous studies. It is suggested that the contrastive studies in words between English and Chinese shall follow the new trends and absorb t...