Experimental Study On Influence Of Emotions On Illustrative Article Speed-reading Among Junior High-school Students

Learning is the interaction of cognition, affection and volition. In practice, however, the trend of intellectualism has seriously influenced students' learning positivity. That can also affect the formation and the development of the student' personality. Although the previous researches have realized the importance of affection in learning, there is few experimental and microcosmic research of operating layer. Little attention was paid to mechanism of emotion influencing learning.This study selects the junior high school students as participants whose emotion is very strong, and reading is breakthrough which is emphases of the student's current. This study discussed the influence emotions of different kind and intensity have on speed-reading and its influencing mechanism with self-made Chinese speed-reading test as the tool and with methods of interview method, experiment, content analysis and measurement. The results are as the following:I. In general, the positive emotion is most helpful for the junior high school student 'Chinese speed-rending. Neutral emotion takes the second place, and effect of negative emotion is the least. In detail, the effect's order from strong to weak is that: the strongest positive emotion,the strongest positive emotion,stronger negative emotion,the strongest negative emotion.II. Positive emotion can improve the performance of obtaining overall information items and difficulty items. The stronger positive emotion is better than the strongest positive emotion. Negative emotion can improve the performance of obtaining detail information items. Stronger negative emotion is better and the strongest negative emotion is no use to solve in any items.III. Emotions of junior high school students originate primarily from the outside factor: the approbation of the important others is better than the comparison of the others; The other important reason is internal factors: comparison between self-expectation and actual result is better than self comparison, the last one is attribution.IV. Among junior high school students, the intermediate psychological variables of emotions influencing reading including: self confidence, learning motivation, self-efficacy, ability of self monitoring and excitement degree of response. Positive emotion can make the intermediate variables influence reading positively. The influence of negative emotion has double- knife- edge effect to students' speed- reading. The distributions of different intensity emotion have certain difference on the intermediate variables.V. Effect of induct the emotions is influenced by self comparison, comparison between self-expectation and actual result, attribution and the cognition evaluation of examine result.Based on these research results, combined the actual educational, this study has put forward seven teaching suggestions to develop the good emotion of students and teaching.