A Study Of Attribution And Strategies Of Students With English Learning Difficulties In Junior Middle School

In the daily teaching activities, there are always a few students with English learning difficulties. They have no interest in English, and their grades are difficult to improve when the final examination of middle school comes. Once English learning difficulties appear, some students will have a huge psychological, such as anxiety, fear, some students even give up learning English. Some even influence teachers’ classroom teaching. Attribution is a kind of common phenomenon in second language learning, which will be positive or negative influence on learners’ motivation.In the field of English education, the use of attribution theory are getting more and more attention.This essay focuses on students with difficulties in English learning. It analyses the reasons that cause the difficulties in learning English by the survey of English learning attribution.Adopting questionnaire surveys, interview methods, the study investigates stu dents in Grade Seven, Eight, Nine from Wuhan Qili Middle School where the author wor k, trying to investigate the causes through the fields of academic performances, learning methods, emotional factors and teaching methods. Questionnaire survey is used as the ma in method to collect data. More detailed comments as supplements are collected through i ndividual student interviews as well as questionnaires and interviews for teachers. By ana lyzing these data, reasonable teaching suggestions are given to help to promote students’ abilities in English learning and to ensure their interests in learning English. Meanwhile, effective suggestions about learning are also recommended to students who have difficult ies in learning English.