The Application Of Affective Strategy In The High Schobl English Listening Teaching

Listening is one of the most basic skills in foreign language learning and teaching and it is atool for absorbing knowledge. The absence of listening competence will affect other skills, suchas speaking, reading, writing and etc. So students’ development of listening competence must bepaid special attention to. Cele-Muroia（1995）pointed out that the listening was a “complexdynamic and fragile process.” The traditional English listening teaching put too much emphasison cognitive factors, but ignored affective ones, and this lead to students’ low interest inlanguage learning.The Standard of English Curriculum of the Full-time Compulsory and Ordinary HighSchool (experimental draft) issued by our country’s Ministry of Education affirm that “Emotionis an important factor that influences the students’ study and development”. One of the importantaspects of the ongoing basic education curriculum reform is to pay attention to students’ affectivedevelopment, and permeate the cultivation of affective factors into the process of learning andteaching. The goal of English course is not only to develop students’ language knowledge, butalso to develop students’ positive emotional attitude. Compared with other disciplines, languagehas a more close relationship with affective factors, so the new formulated curriculum standardlist affective factors into the curriculum goal.The111subjects are from a high school of grade one in Linyi city. Class3is theexperimental class, and class2is the control class. Using affective strategy in class3, whiletraditional methods in class2. Four months later, to see whether there is difference between thetwo classes and the reason why. Then, we interview the students to know the student’s idealEnglish classroom listening mode.The study results show that the use of affective strategy in senior middle school Englishlistening teaching has the obvious role in promoting, can enhance students’ learning motivation,activate classroom atmosphere, reduce anxiety can significantly improve the students’ listeningability.