合作学习:克服外语学习者焦虑情感的有效策略

Using Cooperative Learning to Overcome Language Anxiety in EFL Learning

传统的外语教学过于注重发展语言认知能力,忽视了学习者的情感发展。随着语言教学研究重点转向学习者,外语学习过程中的情感问题逐渐引起人们的关注。笔者在分析影响外语学习效果的情感因素之一:焦虑情感和当前在国际教育领域倍受关注的合作学习策略的基础上,提出运用合作学习克服外语学习者焦虑的思路,并预测这一尝试将会帮助达到外语教学的教育目的。

The traditional foreign language teaching has put too much emphasis on developing learners' cognitive ability with an overlook of their affective development. Recently the research focus of language teaching has been shifted to Language learning, which, consequently, has led to the attention to affective aspects. In this paper, the writer suggests the application of cooperative learning to EFL teaching in Chinese context and predicts the prospect of the attempt based on the analysis of language anxiety and the achievements in cooperative learning.