English vocabulary intentional learning is an important way of English vocabulary acquisition. This paper reviews the research of English vocabulary intentional learning for Chinese Learner from the Perspective of Multimedia Learning Theory, and reviews the research content including the comparative study on the performance of between vocabulary intentional learning and incidental learning, the study on effect of word different presentation ways on English vocabulary acquisition and the study on the lexical variety clustering effect. It summarizes that the achievements and the defects, then points out the future trend of the studies based on Multimedia Learning Theory and presents the further research content in a grossly simplified form and designs the research roadmap.