The Influence Of English Teachers’ Feedback On Students’Achievements In Colleges

In China, since the1980’s, educational experts and teachers have recognized thelearners’ cognitive and affective developments were two integral and importantlearning goals. Along with the development of humanistic psychology, more and morelinguists have been attaching great importance to affective factors in teaching Englishas a second language. From the second language acquisition perspective, Krashenproposed “Affective Filter Hypothesis”, which emphasizes the important role ofstudents’ affect in language learning. From another perspective, social interactionalisttheory suggests that teachers as well as their behavior will influence the students’affect and achievements. So the teachers who believe in constructive theory shouldacquire the new opinions and change their teaching methods.This thesis aims to study the influence of teachers’ feedback on students’ affectand achievements based on the above theories. The instruments for data collectioninclude interview, questionnaires, diaries, class recording and comparing the examresults assisted by two English major classes in Qingdao Binhai College. The study iscarried out in three steps: the first step is to identify the status of students’ affect andtheir preference for teachers’ feedback, at the same time, analyze the level of theirlearning achievements; the second step is to provide appropriate feedback accordingto the above analyses and collect the students’ diaries together with the classrecording to study the students’ affective changes; the last step is to draw someconclusions with the help of all the data and final exam results. In the end, the authorfound that teachers’ feedback did influence students’ affect directly, and the changesof affect lead to the differences of their achievements.Therefore, the author suggests that teachers should improve their language skills and feedback strategies according to the preference of the students in good time; givemore affective and psychological concerns in order to create a harmonious learningenvironment to stimulate the students’positive affect, of course, all of these will lay asolid foundation for the improvement of the students’achievements.