如何激发英语学习中的差生(1)(3)
2016-04-13 01:06
导读：“Intrinsic Motivation: An aspect of an activity that people enjoy and therefore find motivating.” [8] It is largely connected with all the factors in the classroom, such as: physical conditions, t
“Intrinsic Motivation: An aspect of an activity that people enjoy and therefore find motivating.” [8] It is largely connected with all the factors in the classroom, such as: physical conditions, teaching method, and teacher. “Physical conditions: such as the bad light, dull setting and overcrowded classroom de-motivate the students. Teaching method: the method by which the students are taught must have some effects on their motivation. If they find it deadly boring, they can hardly concentrate on class, as a result, they wouldn't like to participate in class activities and receive negative comment frequently. Thus, it is the teacher's method that affects their intrinsic motivation.” [9] Teacher: A well-trained teacher should make his classes interesting, be fair to his students and be a good language user. Setting appropriate goals to the students can also lead to success or failure in the classroom. That is to say, a type of much relaxed atmosphere in which a language is learnt can stimulate the students to have a positive attitude to the language. And the student's confidence in the method is largely in the hands of the most important factors affecting intrinsic motivation, the teacher.
Many investigations and researches suggest that the result of learning depends on the learners' intrinsic motivation. Once the learners are interested, they will work hard, act more actively and positively. Or the following phenomena will appear:
1. Lack of Interest
Most students begin learning English as eager learners. They enjoy learning about animal words, greeting phrases, and almost anything else. But beginning at about the second or third year, however, learning becomes difficult for some students. So they gradually decrease their interest and even give up learning it.
2. Lack of confidence
The students who are lack of the confidence in learning English explain failures by low ability often, they begin to experience helplessness, which is a motivational state acquired through consistently internal and stable attributions of causes for failure. Learned helplessness comes from repeatedly blaming their failure on low ability. They are self-abased and think that they are not born to learn English .They even don't like to talk with others in English, and raise any questions as well. They are afraid of making mistakes. If failure is repeatedly experienced, and if it becomes attributed to stable internal causes (low ability), confidence (the belief in one's power to affect outcomes) diminishes and they feel they might as well not try.
（科教作文网http://zw.ΝsΕAc.com发布） 3. Lack of self-efficacy
“The outcomes of a learner's actions have the greatest effect on self-efficacy. Success generally increases self-efficacy whereas failure generally decreases it.” [10] Some students' learning foundation is poor. These students response slowly and always haven't got good result in the tests. Therefore, they get little chance to be praised by their teacher, while more chance to be criticized. Then a learner's self-efficacy is gradually influenced and decreased. And this often leads to students' anxious and nervous mood in learning and also affects their study record.
