A Case Study Of Emotional Education In English Classes Of Rural Primary Schools

The English curriculum standards state that "emotional attitudes are an important factor affecting students’ learning and development",and that the teaching process should aim to develop students’ emotional attitudes such as interest,motivation,self-confidence,will and cooperative spirit.However,today,the teaching mode of primary school English classrooms is still coloured by examination-based education,and rural students in particular need teachers to implement effective emotional education due to the special nature of their psychological development.The value of emotion education is beginning to be recognized,and research on it has gradually extended from the theoretical to the practical level,but the scope of research is not comprehensive enough,and there is less research on emotion education in rural primary schools.What are the problems with implementing emotion education in rural primary school English classrooms today? How can emotion education be properly implemented? This is an important topic that deserves in-depth study.The thesis uses a combination of interviews and case studies.Based on a review of the literature,Y Primary School in Lian Yungang City,Jiangsu Province,was selected as the object of the study to carry out the case study and to obtain and analyse data.After understanding the current situation and problems of implementing emotion education in Y primary school English classrooms,the author went deep into the classroom and described and theorised about real teaching cases in new lessons,revision lessons and assessment lessons based on the classification of primary school English teaching objectives,and analysed the problems and reasons for the implementation of emotion education in Y primary school English teachers,specifically the teachers’ unclear cognition of emotion education,the teachers’ The problems and causes of teachers’ implementation of affective education in Y primary school are described and theoretically analysed.Based on these problems,suggestions are made to improve the implementation of emotional education in rural primary school English classes: firstly,teachers need to induce students’ interest in learning English and strengthen rural students’ motivation to learn;use teaching methods to satisfy students’ curiosity,learn to care for students and satisfy their psychology of belonging,use information technology to satisfy students’ urge for beauty,and make good use of positive assessment to satisfy students’ instinct for excellence.Create emotional activities and learn with positive emotions.Secondly,teachers should create emotional activities to enrich students’ classroom experience;they should teach with emotion,learn to explore the emotional elements of English materials,and be able to detect students’ feelings and emotions in a timely manner.Finally,teachers should guide students to make value judgements and to improve their self-management skills;they should provide simple core patterns that evoke emotional feelings,help students to understand themselves and to learn by self-reference,and teach them to transfer their knowledge to new situations.