A Study To The Motivation That Affects The Students' English Learningin Primary School

Following the elementary study to English education in the primary school, the article presents the results of the changing grades in two years of the students and a questionnaire on affective factors of education that invested 30 English teachers of China on the students' English learning. Inductive analysis of the questionnaire indicated that Motivation, the crucial factor in affective teaching, influences the students' English learning mainly. And also research to the two-year grades of the primary students in the same five classes, which show the different changing about the classes, boys and girls, looking at the graph. After looking back the process of education---interacting between the different teachers and the same students, the article offers some practical suggestions about affective teaching: how to inspire the motivation of the students to learn English; which is the most important factor in leaning English for the students in primary school. As we know, it might be beneficial to English teachers of China in the private school as well as that in the Public.This paper presents from the following four relatiohships on theory:(l)Humanistic and affective factors(2)Humanistic psychology and affective factors(3)Humanistic is the base of the "New Crriculum Criterion" of our country.(4)Motivation is the key factor of all affective factors for the students in primary school.In China English education holds a most important position at present in primary school, although it is not long to set English lessons. The humanist thought on education which "New criterions on curriculums" is based on is person-centered, and has flowed into every step in English teaching of primary school. The direction of education has shifed away when the behavioral theory of learning was challenged by more child-centered learning theory by Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget (Jerry W. Willis, Kathryn I. Mathew, 1996), in another way, that is to say, he center of the study changes from a teacher(--how to teach) to the students(---how to learn). One of the important fields to research is on the individul factors of learners, which lead to the...