Research On The Significance Of Affect In English Larning Based On Cooperative Studies

In this time and age, affect plays an important role in second language teaching andlearning. Under the New Curriculum background, how to improve class efficiency andpromote the all-around development of students is becoming increasingly important. All ofthese requirements are all fit for the humanistic psychology. Humanism emphasizes theimportance of whole-person development, including both cognitive development andaffective development. Therefore, in the process of language learning and teaching, it isnecessary to pour attention into the affective factors. However, in the history of traditionaleducational conception, there are many misunderstandings on affect. It is common to ignorethe development of affective factors and overvalue the development of intelligence andknowledge, which can result in the low efficiency.Numerous researches have shown that affective factors play a great role in secondlanguage learning and teaching. Therefore, teachers should pay attention to students’ affectivefactors so that they can make the class more efficient. If he/she only focuses on improvementof personal teaching abilities, lacks the consciousness of thinking from the students’perspective and is seldom concerned about students’ affective factors, it is impossible for ateacher to achieve the goal of New Curriculum.Group Cooperative Learning means that the students, with the guidance of their teachers,work in small groups and receive rewards or recognition based on their group performance.Many researches have carried out the cooperation itself, but there is little research on affect incooperative, such as what relationship they are and how they influence each other. Thisresearch is based on these questions. According to this study, people can have a reference toknow how to arouse the passion of teachers and students, and people also can find a good way to reduce the unfavorable factors so that they can make English teaching and studying anefficient procedure.This thesis refers to many scholars’ study both at home and aboard, guided bypsychological and educational theories and assisted with a questionnaire that64learners’affective status in Qingping Middle School, verifying that affective factors is related to theCL and the test scores. At last, all the data obtained have been analyzed by the software SPSSand the results are presented and described by the tables in this thesis.This thesis consists of six chapters.Chapter One briefly introduces the background of foreign language learning andteaching research, present affective factors state in China and the significance of this research.Chapter Two offers a literature review of affect and cooperative learning. Chapter Threeprovides some theories and assumptions relevant to affect from the perspectives of secondlanguage acquisition, psychology and some important affective factors. These theoriesconstitute the theoretical foundation for the whole thesis. Chapter Four is a survey relevant tothe cooperative learning. Chapter Five gives an analysis and discusses the date. Chapter Sixsummarizes the major findings of the research, the implication of the research, limitations ofthe present research and makes suggestions for further research.