The Study Of Cultivating Students' Positive Affective Attitude In English Teaching Of High School

The English Curriculum Standard of Ordinary High School (experimental draft) issued by our country's Ministry of Education affirms, "Affective attitude is an important factor that influences the student's study and development". For the first time, affective attitude becomes one of the five English teaching objectives and the first task of English course at the basic educational stage. Therefore, affective attitude in the course of English teaching and learning cannot be overlooked and evaded any longer. At the time we are advocating quality-oriented education and executing the Standard, it has become especially important that much attention should be paid to affective attitude in English teaching. Actually it has become one important task to carry out research on how to cultivate the students' positive affective attitude in the present middle school English teaching.There are many affective factors that affect English learning. According to the requirement of the Standard as well as the actual survey to English teaching in Dafang No.1 Middle School, the thesis focuses on analyzing three important affective factors: "motivation, interest and self-confidence" from the individual factors, and emphasizes on expounding "teacher-student relationship" which is a decisive factor in any teaching from the interpersonal affective factors. The paper is an attempt to answering and solving the following questions: (1) Whether and to what extent affective attitude makes a great impact on the English learning effect? (2) Whether English teachers' performance can exert an influence on learners? (3) How to cultivate students' positive affective attitude in English teaching and learning? So the paper mainly adopts both qualitative and quantitative approaches, including referring to literatures carefully, investigation, observation, questionnaire, data analysis and summarizing experience.Firstly, the thesis discusses the research's important meanings of affective attitude of English teaching in high school; Secondly, the present writer thinks the definition of affective attitude from the Standard-interest, motivation, self-confidence, will and cooperative spirit some relative factors which influence learners' learning course and effect and gradually formed our country's consciousness and international field of view in the learning course-emphasizes that teachers would attach great importance to training students' positive affective attitude. And it also embodies the idea of "positive affective attitude is a key to learn English well".Therefore, the author believes that the most important affective factors in English teaching and learning are interest, motivation, self-confidence and teacher-student relationship. Combining with teaching experiences in English teaching of high school, the thesis takes relevant affect research as theoretical frame, discusses the necessity and significance of affective attitude and how to cultivate students' positive affective attitude in English teaching of high school.The present paper aims at surveying one common middle school in western district of Guizhou province-Dafang No. 1 Middle School. Although its results and conclusions can not be applied into all high schools, Dafang No. 1 Middle School has a certain representative-ness and typical characters to senior middle schools in western or remote districts. So this research has some guided meanings to the English teaching of high schools in same level. This thesis is trying to offer high school English teachers some materials of practical value in implementing the objective of affective attitude prescribed in the Standard. The author also hopes this research will arouse more concerns about affective factors in the teaching of high school, and help to explore the strategies of cultivating students' positive affective attitude.