The Influence Of The Affective Variables In Vocational School English Teaching

Nowadays, more and more vocational school teachers are complaining that it's a disaster to teach vocational school students English. Classes are usually big. There are forty or fifty students in a class, 50% of whom don't finish their junior education. Of the rest of the students, 90% fail to get their junior schools' certificates. The students' qualification is becoming worse and worse year by year. In their English study, they are not willing to memorize new words, let alone understanding the text. They can neither make a complete sentence nor finish their homework on time. They show indifference to the teaching. The class is seldom in good order. After a survey on the new-comers of the first-year vocational students, we concluded that most students had a sense of learned helplessness. They believe that they are doomed to failure no matter how hard they learn. They often cause discipline problems and have conflicts with their teachers, which is annoying. Many experienced teachers have to teach these students. However, they find no pleasure in teaching. The thesis is trying to analyze this problem. The paper describes the characteristics of the vocational school students who have a sense of learned helplessness, analyzes that passive affects which have a great effect on students' learning and proposes some strategies to motivate those students to carry out their tasks in English study.