AffectiveFactorsandEnglishTeachinginJuniorHighschool

毕业论文〔设计)1.Introduction"Quick-stuffing"type of teaching was once popular in English teaching in juniorhigh schools in which students became passive receivers and their feelings wereignored,such a teaching resulted in "emotional illiteracy".With the development of psychology,humanism is paid attention to gradually.Humanism has brought a shift in education towards an internal frame of reference,considering capacity for learning in terms of affective state conditioned by theindividual's life experience and beliefs.In 1950s,Humanistic Psychology whichrequires people pay more attention to affective factors came out.Affective factors are a combination of a series of complicated psychologicalfactors,such as attitudes,personality,anxiety,and confidence and so on and affectivefactors are characterized by uncertainty and constant change.According to Arnild,affective factors are factors which are concerned with thelanguage learner as an individual focus on the learner as a participant in asocio-cultural situation,such as motivation,self-confidence and anxiety.Some scholars have carried out researches on the benefit of taking affectivefactors into account during teaching process.Suggesto Pedia suggests people to forgetanxiety and to arouse their interest in learning;Total Physical Response suggestsreducing anxiety.Krashen's Affective Filter Hypothesis points out learners with highmotivation,self-confidence,a good self-image and a low level of anxiety are betterequipped for success in second language acquisition.From all mentioned above,we2