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外语课堂焦虑及教学策略
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摘要
近年来,外语教学研究的重点已经从教师如何教学转向学生如何学习。在这一过程中,学者们已经越来越重视学生的情感因素在教学中的作用。研究发现,外语焦虑是情感领域中最重要的因素之一。
     本文首先简要阐述了国内外情感研究的历史、现状及其方向。在相关文献的启发下,作者试图探讨中国非英语专业大学生的外语课堂焦虑现象,全面了解学生在外语课堂上的焦虑感,探求缓解高焦虑的途径。其次,在摆出问题的情况下,作者采用问卷、学生日记及访谈等工具进行研究。结果发现,非英语专业大学生在英语课堂上确实存在焦虑感,而且这种焦虑感反过来会影响他们的英语学习。数据分析显示,课堂焦虑的成因主要有学生自身的因素和教师、教学过程等外部因素,而且外语焦虑有不同的表现方式。接着,作者着重提出了与焦虑成因相对应的教学策略,旨在缓解学生的语言焦虑,消除外语焦虑对英语学习的负面影响。最后,作者概述本研究的主要内容,正面回答相关问题,阐述本研究对当前大学外语教学的理论意义与实践价值,指出本研究的局限性,并提出后续研究的建议。
To improve English learning and teaching, many teachers and researchers have paid increased attention to learners' affective variables, shifting from the focus on the way the teacher teaches to the way the student learns. And foreign language anxiety is agreed to be one of the most important factors in this aspect.
    This thesis sums up the previous and current research in the affective domain and finds out what is still left to be done. Inspired by the fruitful western research results in language anxiety, the author attempts to conduct an investigation on English language anxiety in the Chinese context, to have a full understanding of anxiety in EFL classroom, and to improve college students' learning of English.
    By means of a questionnaire, students' learning diaries, and interviews, the author finds that Chinese non-English majors experience anxiety in EFL classroom and foreign language anxiety interferes with their English learning. Through the analysis of the data the author examines the sources leading to foreign language anxiety. The study suggests that the problem of language anxiety is not only due to the learner but also to the language learning experience including the instructor and the methodology. After probing learners' different manifestations of foreign language anxiety, the author puts forward some teaching strategies to relax anxiety, which are able to help release students' learning anxiety in class and improve classroom-teaching quality. The thesis ends with a summary of this investigation, implications and limitations of the study, and suggestions for future research.
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