英语课堂焦虑对小学生英语学习的影响文学学士.doc

AbstractNowadays people are increasingly aware of the emotion in foreign study. On Affective Filter Hypo thesis, American language educationist S.D. Larson pointed out that relaxation and anxiety both play an important role. It is visible to see that anxiety may be the most affective element in language learning. This paper mainly states the wide occurrence of anxiety in pupils’ English class and explores the sorts and reasons of pupils’ anxiety in English class. Many results show that anxiety has been found to be correlated with English-learning achievement among different groups of people in various contexts. In order to explore primary school students’ English learning anxiety，this paper reveals what are the most effective strategies in English teaching to ease the state of anxiety for pupils. Ultimately, some problems worth noticing of researching anxiety have been put forward.Key words: English class; pupil; anxiety中文摘要在英语学习过程中，人们越来越关注学习者的情感因素。

美国语言教育学家克拉申在他的情感过滤学说中指出,焦虑或放松在情感过滤中起着关键性的作用可见焦虑可能是语言学习中最大的情感障碍本文主要指出了在小学英语课堂上焦虑情绪的广泛存在性，探讨了小学生英语课堂焦虑情绪的种类和引发的原因许多先前调查结果显示，不同性别、英语课堂气氛、学生成绩和师生关系都会是引发小学生英语课堂焦虑的主要因素此外，本研究者结合与教师教学活动相关的焦虑因素，提示教师应采取积极的措施帮助学生减轻外语焦虑，以提高英语学习的效率最后，文章指出了关于更多对小学生外语课堂焦虑研究的呼吁关键词：英语课堂；小学生；焦虑1. IntroductionWith the rapid pace of humanism psychology, the focus of teaching methods started to shift from how to teach to how to learn. Educational workers transfer the way to research all kinds of elements influencing learner’s English study from researching teaching methods in rapid succession. Among so many elements, affective quality is no doubt the most important one of them. And the feeling of anxiety in English class, as one of the significant element for English learner, has become an increasing researching topic. With the age of English learner is becoming younger and younger, more and more pupils began to have English course. From the autumn of 2001, education department gradually set up English course in primary schools. After doing some research both at home and abroad, I have found that the greater part of research object is senior and higher educational students. And there is rarely research of pupils in state of anxiety in English class. Moreover, most of the researches elaborate the theoretical statement of affective quality but not involve in actual situation where pupils with foreign educational teaching feel anxiety. In fact, anxiety of English learning is spreading in pupils. In order to improve our efficiency in English teaching in primary school, this paper has a deep analysis dealing with pupils by leasing their state of anxiety.1.1 definition of anxietyAnxiety is the distress or unpleasant feelings caused by upcoming danger or potential threats in life. According to the encyclopedia, it is defined as follows: anxiety is an uneasy and scared mood condition that occurs when an individual's self-esteem is under continual pressure triggered by worries that one may not be able to achieve a goal or overcome an obstacle. It often involuntarily affects one’s mental, cognitive, behavior and somatic states. Its main symptoms include psychological and physiological anxieties. As a matter of fact, anxiety is an inherent reaction of self-preservation of humankind, appropriate amount of which will benefit one's life existence and daily life while excessive amount of which will hold back work, studies and life.1.2 The cause of pupil‘anxiety in English learningStudents’ anxieties are caused by interior factors of the individual or exterior factors of the environment. These factors interwoven together triggered anxieties in the process of learning English, thus affecting the learning effects. It has been observed that classroom anxiety is gradually emerging to the surface as pupils lose the initial curiosity confusion about the English classes. It is also notable that most parents cannot properly tutor their children as they can in other subjects, since English is newly added to the curriculum. So what they do is simply to emphasis the importance of English learning. Once the pupils cannot adapt themselves to the teaching in class, they will feel uneasy and afraid of difficulties when faced with a heavy load of information. If they have not formed good habits of learning, it is quite likely that they will lose interest and confidence in learning and feel anxious. Anxiety of different levels and forms will have an impact on learning effects.1.3 Literature review of state of anxiety in English learningFrom the 1970’s, foreign teaching methods started to shift from how to teach to how to learn. One important research area is about individual differences. Under such circumstance, some researchers also began to pay attention to affective quality like attitude, motivation, disposition, anxiety, empathy, confidence and other element in influencing language study. And the word “anxiety” has been followed with interest. Reprehensive characters in 。