An Investigation Of High School Teachers' Attitudes Towards Students' Affect

The affective domain has drawn wide attention in the educational circle in our country.However,in many high school English classrooms in China, teachers only make use of affect to promote students performance in language study,seldom do they bother to understand students'inner world. Affect is not considered as an integrate part to realize the whole person education.The writer draws on the experience of a recent research concerning the teachers' educational abilities in China, which reveals that about seventy–five percent of the teachers are lack of educational ability.In the author'view, educational ability does not only refers to teaching techniques ,skills and strategies, but also includes the teachers' own emotional quality.Ignoring the students' affect will directly affect students'cognitive and emotional development ,weakening the educational and teaching effectiveness.This article draws the following conclusions by an empirical study conducted in a senior high school.1.Students in senior schools consider it is of vital importance for the teacher to pay attention to students'motivation,self-esteem,self-confidence which have a positive role on the students English study. According to the order of importance,the top five is:(1)building up self-image (2)expressing themselves(3)learning from their own mistakes (4)facing the challenge (5)timely and appropriate encouragement.2.Important as they are, students'self-esteem, self-respect and other emotional needs have not been taken into consideration. Students are eager to express themselves and to gain some experience from their own errors .They also want to improve their abilities to deal with challenges and difficulties. Rarely do teachers help their students to develop a positive self-image, nor do they provide emotional support.3.There are some mismatches between teachers'perception of learners'needs and learners'actual needs. Students may misunderstand the teachers' intention. Teachers'routine feedback may cause the learner to feel even more insecure as a result of learners'fragile inner world.This research has resulted the following implications:In the emotional world of senior high school students,self-image is very important.Because the students value greatly self-image,they are very sensitive to errors and frustration.They look forward to the emotional assistance from their teachers.They look forward to being respected and understood by their teachers. They also hope that teachers can pluck up their courage of facing errors and difficulties in caring for students'needs will help improve students'linguistic and cognitive capabilities.This essay consists of four parts :1. Introduction: providing the background and significance of this research.2. Literature Review: dealing with the definition,classification ,contents , characteristics and functions of affective factors and the current research related to affective domains.3. The investigation: of high school teachers'attitudes toward students'affect.4. Reflection and proposals: forstering students'positive mental development via enhancing teachers'own professional qualities, creating agreeable learning atmosphere and reducing classroom anxieties.