激发初中英语课堂活力的策略初探(1)(6)
2017-01-25 01:02
导读：“Self-esteem is a self-judgment of worth or value, based on feelings of efficacy, a sense of interacting effectively with one’s own environment.”[9] Learner’s self-esteem is one of the importa
“Self-esteem is a self-judgment of worth or value, based on feelings of efficacy, a sense of interacting effectively with one’s own environment.”[9] Learner’s self-esteem is one of the important factors in English learning. The students come from different social, economic backgrounds. They have different proficiency and different local dialect. Most of them believe their language skill is weaker than those of the others in the class. They are afraid of “losing face”, if they don’t do a good job. When they face different troubles in pronunciation and oral practice in class, they feel nervous and embarrassed. They fear to speak in front of others and even keep silent. And then they wouldn’t like to take part in the communicative practice actively. But if they could speak English fluently and perform well in front of class, if they did the exercise well, if they made fewer mistakes and got the praise from the teacher, they would know they are not weaker than others. When they feel successful in learning, they will gradually feel confident. So in the language learning process, the teacher plays an important role in influencing the learner’s self-esteem. The teacher can encourage and motivate the learners by means of accomplishing something or achieving a potential success in language leaning to build their self-esteem, and more likely to feel motivated to continue to try and work hard to develop their language proficiency. In turn, their improvement in language proficiency will be conducive to raising their self-esteem. Besides “the teacher should focus their praise and evolution on effort, not ability. Even if not every student can get 100 percent on a test, every student can give 100 percent effort and it is this effort that should be recognized and reward.”[10]4.2.2Motivating the students to study English
“Motivation is something that energizes, directs and sustains behavior; it gets students moving, points them in a particular direction and keeps them going,”[11] A learner’s motivation is not unique and unchangeable, so the teachers must often study every learner’s motivation. The teacher should try to motivate learners by means of explaining the final and practical aim of English language education. On one hand this is our country’s requirement, on the other hand it will be beneficial to them in future. Furthermore, English is very helpful to the computer study, which is becoming more and more popular all over the world.
（科教范文网http://fw.ΝsΕΑc.com编辑） When the students know this, they will be very eager to learn English. And it is necessary to tell the students about this. Because this motivation of the students is one of the most important factors which influence their success or failure in language learning. If the students perceive a goal they wish to achieve, or the goal is sufficiently attractive, the students will be likely to do whatever is necessary to reach the goal.
So far as we know that a learner’s learning should depend upon not only the external factors but also the internal factors which are of vital importance in learning English. A teacher of English not only try to use the most effective teaching method to attract students and help them learn English well but also study their internal factor to motivate them to learn English.4.2.3 Giving the students more praise and less criticism
