1、初中生英语学习兴趣培养的调查与研究院 系： 外国语学院 专 业： 英 语 年 级： XXX 学生姓名： XXXXXX XXXXXX 学 号： XXX 导师及职称： XXX (讲师） 20XXX年XX月2015 Annual Graduation Thesis (Project) of the College Undergraduate An Investigation into the Cultivation of English Learning Interest of Junior High School Students Department: College of Foreign La
2、nguageMajor: EnglishGrade: 20XXStudent Name: Xia Meng Liang Wenjuan Liu Weifeng Yin Mingchun Li Zhongmei Yue Yanting Wei Shuping Xi RuixiongStudent No.: 20XXX60043Tutor: Professor Liu LingFinished by December, 20XX毕业论文（设计）原创性声明本人所呈交的毕业论文（设计）是我在导师的指导下进行的研究工作及取得的研究成果。据我所知，除文中已经注明引用的内容外，本论文（设计）不包含其他个人已
3、经发表或撰写过的研究成果。对本论文（设计）的研究做出重要贡献的个人和集体，均已在文中作了明确说明并表示谢意。 作者签名： 日期： 毕业论文（设计）授权使用说明本论文（设计）作者完全了解XX学院有关保留、使用毕业论文（设计）的规定，学校有权保留论文（设计）并向相关部门送交论文（设计）的电子版和纸质版。有权将论文（设计）用于非赢利目的的少量复制并允许论文（设计）进入学校图书馆被查阅。学校可以公布论文（设计）的全部或部分内容。保密的论文（设计）在解密后适用本规定。 作者签名： 指导教师签名：日期： 日期： 毕业论文（设计）答辩委员会(答辩小组)成员名单姓名职称单位备注组长（组长）组员组员组员组员组员
4、组员组员XX学院本科毕业论文（设计）AcknowledgementsIt is a long and hard but interesting period for me to finish this thesis. I wish to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to those who help me during my thesis writing. During the process of writing my paper, I received much strict and efficient guidance an
5、d encouragement from my tutor Wang Caiqin. I would like to take this opportunity to express my sincere appreciation to her for her patience and carefulness. Then I want to thank my respectable teachers of Henan Normal University for passing on knowledge to me in my two-year study. Finally, I would l
6、ike to thank all the people who participate in my investigation and those who give me help during my thesis writing. 摘 要 著名的教育家托尔斯泰曾经说过：“成功的教学所需要的不是强制，而是激发学生的兴趣。”兴趣是学习的动力，如何培养学生的学习兴趣对于学习英语是非常重要的,它贯穿于整个英语学习过程的始终。一旦学生的兴趣被激发，他们会积极主动地学习英语，学生的学习主动性和热情也将被激发。新课程改革的重点旨在激发和培养学学习英语的兴趣，使学生树立自信心，养成良好的学习习惯和形成有效的
7、学习策略，发展自主学习的能力和合作精神；使学生掌握一定的英语基础知识和听、说、读、写技能，形成一定的综合语言运用能力。在初中英语教学过程中，教师应该努力地激发学生学习英语的积极性和主动性，培养学生学习英语的兴趣。 本课题以兴趣和动机理论为指导，发放学生和教师问卷调查、并结合个别学生和教师的访谈、课堂观察等方法对培养学生兴趣的方法进行了调查，旨在研究：（1）在英语教学中，老师经常采取哪些方法来培养学生的学习兴趣？（2）初中生经常采取哪些方法来激活并保持自己的英语学习兴趣？ 通过调查研究，本论文研究数据显示：第一，良好和谐的师生关系是学生兴趣的最初来源。第二，帮助学生建立英语学习自信心使学生享受英
8、语学习。第三，娴熟且灵活多样的教学技巧往往可以使学生不由自主的去学习英语。第四，新颖和多样化的游戏和活动，及有趣的英文资源可以维持学生的英语学习兴趣。 本文主要有五部分组成。第一部分，主要从初中英语学科的性质和地位及研究背景和研究意义等方面进行阐述。第二部分，主要阐述了国内外学习兴趣研究现状、动机和兴趣理论对英语学习兴趣的相关方面进行了阐述，指出兴趣对英语学习和英语教学的重要作用。第三部分，研究设计，采用了课堂观察法，问卷调查法和访谈法。第四部分，分别对教师问卷和学生问卷、教师访谈和学生访谈、课堂观察进行统计及分析，得出学生的英语学习兴趣现状、对老师的兴趣培养的看法、以及学生自己是如何来培养和
9、维持自己的英语学习兴趣的。从师生关系、学生自信心、教学过程的设计等方面来探讨如何提高初中生英语学习兴趣，试图帮学生和老师找到一种能有效解决这一问题的途径。第五部分，本研究得出的结论。 关键词：初中英语, 学习兴趣, 培养 ABSTRACTThe famous educator said that successful teaching is not to force the students to learn but to motivate their interest. So we can conclude that interest will drive the students to l
10、earn, but how to cultivate the students interest plays a very important role during the English learning process. Once the junior high school students interest is aroused, it is a great help to the students, they will actively learn English and the students learning enthusiasm and initiative will be
11、 motivated. With the development of the New English Curriculum Standard, it mainly aims at motivating and developing the students learning interest, building up the students learning confidence, cultivating the excellent learning habit and effective learning strategies, developing the students abili
12、ty of self-motivated learning and cooperative learning, acquiring the English basic skills, which is, listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. In junior high school English teaching process, teachers should try their best to motivate the students English learning enthusiasm and initiative an
13、d cultivate the students English learning interest. Under the guidance of interest and motivation theory, the author gets down to investigating the methods to cultivating the students learning interest. Teachers questionnaires and students questionnaires are handed down, combined with individual stu
14、dents and teachers interview and classroom observation to investigate and analyze. The purpose of the thesis is to find out:1. What methods do the teachers often adopt to cultivate the students English learning interest?2. What methods do the students often adopt to motivate and sustain their own En
15、glish learning interest in junior high school?From the investigation and research, the following understanding is shown to cultivate the students English learning interest. Firstly, the harmonious relationship between the students and the teachers is the first students interest resource. Secondly, h
16、elping the students to build up confidence and make them enjoy English learning. Thirdly, the flexible and all different kinds of teaching skills can make the students learn English initiatively and actively. Fourth, the interesting and all different kinds of English activities, games, and other Eng
17、lish resources can sustain the students English learning interest.KEY WORDS: English in junior high school, learning interest, cultivation TABLE OF CONTENTSpage1. CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION11.1 Research Background21.2 Research Significance21.3 Structure of the Thesis32. CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW52
18、.1 Relationship between Learning Interest and Motivation52.1.1 Interest62.1.2 Motivation62.2 Brief Review of Studies on English Learning Interest72.2.1 Brief Review of Studies Abroad72.2.2 Brief Review of Studies at Home82.2.3 Some Existing Problems93. CHAPTER THREE RESEARCH DESIGN103.1 Research Que
19、stions and Objectives103.1.1 Research Questions103.1.2 Research Objectives103.2 Research Subjects103.3 Research Methods and Procedures113.3.1 Questionnaire for the Students and Teachers113.3.2 Interviews113.3.3 Classroom Observation123.4 Data Collection124. CHAPTER FOUR RESULTS AND ANALYSIS144.1 Res
20、ults and Analysis of the Students Questionnaires144.2 Results and Analysis of the TeachersQuestionnaires194.3 Results and Analysis of the Students Interviews254.4 Results and Analysis of the Teachers Interviews264.5 Results and Analysis of the Classroom Observation284.5.1 Analysis of the First Class
21、room Observation284.5.2 Analysis of the Second Classroom Observation315. CHAPTER FIVE CONCLUDING REMARKS415.1 Major Findings415.2 Pedagogical Implications425.3 Limitations and Prospects425.3.1 Research Limitation425.3.2 Prospects43BIBLIOGRAPHY44XX学院本科毕业论文（设计）1. CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION With the deve
22、lopment of the society and economics, English learning becomes more and more important, but many students have lost interest in English learning in China. Because the students have to accept the endless exams and follow the teachers to recite so many words, phrases, dialogues and grammatical rules,
23、the students are sure to lose interest in English learning. The students purpose of learning English is to recite the boring English words, phrases and grammatical rules and get high marks in the different kinds of exams, hence, more and more students are not interested in English. Once the students
24、 lose interest, the students will fail in English learning. It is said by Einstein,“Learning interest is the best teacher.”According to the psychological experiment, when the people are interested in something, they will do it actively and initiatively. When the people do the things that they are in
25、terested in, they will express above eighty percent, otherwise they will express below twenty percent. The experiment shows that interest plays a crucial role in English learning (Chen Hong, 2006). What is interest? In my opinion, its something that can make you happy, joyful, excited, active and en
26、ergetic. Its something that can make you pay attention, its something that can make you successful. If the students learn with interest, they will be happy to learn, and enjoy learning. English learning interest plays an important role in English teaching and learning, if the students interest is ar
27、oused, the students will have the strong desire to learn. And language learning mainly depends on the English learning surroundings, as if our mother tongue learning depends on our surroundings. For example, when we see someone drink water, at the same time, we ourselves need water, we will try our
28、best to listen and learn “water” to acquire this word (Huang Meilin, 2011). But when we learn English, we are forced to learn and recite grammatical rules to pass the exam, not to talk with others and learn with interest. We cant not only talk but also understand the native speakers. So it is import
29、ant to learn with interest and acquire the listening, speaking, reading and writing skills, not to pass the exam. During the cultivation of English learning interest, the teachers play a key role to ask the students to be interested in their classes. The thesis mainly aims at cultivating the student
30、s English learning interest, it also proposes more methods to cultivate the students interest so as to contribute a great help to the English teaching quality. 1.1 Research Background In the past twenty years, the traditional method is widespread, more and more teachers, schools and students are inf
31、luenced by traditional teaching methods, some teachers also have the English class like this: read and translate. So many students have lost interest in the process of English learning. From elementary school to university, the students have to accept the endless exams and follow the teachers to rec
32、ite so many words, phrases, dialogues and grammatical rules, the students are sure to lose interest in English learning. With the development of the New English Curriculum Standard, it mainly aims at motivating and developing the students learning interest, building up the students learning confiden
33、ce, cultivating the excellent learning habit and effective learning strategies, developing the students ability of self-motivated learning and cooperative learning, acquiring the English basic skills, which is, listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. Once the junior high school students int
34、erest is aroused, it is a great help to the students, they will learn English actively and initiatively, the students learning enthusiasm and initiative will be motivated. However, many studies show that English learning interest plays important roles in the process of English learning, as long as t
35、he students learn with interest, they will be happier to learn and acquire the knowledge easier, that is the essence. As a matter of fact, the topic about the cultivation of learning interest has been the concern of many researchers but it has a long way to go. Although there are many studies on the
36、 cultivation of learning interest, but there are few methods to cultivate the students interest in junior high school. 1.2 Research Significance In the learning process, English learning is complicated because it is not usually used in our daily life. It is not only influenced by the English languag
37、e itself, but also influenced by some other factors, the learning interest is the most crucial factor among those factors. Talked about the learning interest, we can be dated back to the Spring and Autumn Period. Great educator Confucius said like this: “the man who knows it is not as good as the ma
38、n who likes it; the man who likes it is not as good as the man who takes delight in it”. The famous educator Piaget said: “All intelligence activities derive from interests”. Einstein said: “Interest is the best teacher.”All those sentences pointed out the importance of learning interest, interest p
39、lays a crucial role in English learning, so it is necessary and important for the students and schools to cultivate the students interest in order to ask the students to enjoy learning and facilitate the English learning. And it is important for the teachers, the teachers had better make use of all
40、different kinds of teaching methods to arouse the students learning interest in order to ask them to enjoy the English learning and facilitate the English learning. The following will conclude the ways to cultivate the students interest, the teachers can make use of the teaching methods which the au
41、thor concludes to cultivate the students learning interest and facilitate the English learning. So it is very important for us to investigate the teachers and the students and conclude the effective ways to cultivate the students learning interest. 1.3 Structure of the Thesis This thesis is made up
42、of five chapters. The first part is research background, research significance and structure of the thesis. The second part, the thesis is elaborated from brief review of studies on English learning interest and the relevant theories concerning interest and motivation and pointed out that English le
43、arning interest plays an important role in English learning and teaching. The third part is research design, the author makes an investigation by making use of classroom observation, questionnaire and interview. The fourth part is to analyze the teachers and students questionnaires, teachers and stu
44、dents interview and classroom observation and conclude the current situation of the students English learning interest, the opinion on the teachers teaching methods and the methods the students adopt to motivate and sustain the students English learning interest. And then from the relationship betwe
45、en the students and the teachers and the design of the teaching procedures to explore how to improve the English learning interest in junior high school, in order to find an effective way to solve the problem. The fifth part is conclusion. 43XX学院本科毕业论文（设计）2. CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW This chapte
46、r is elaborated from brief review of studies on English learning interest and the relevant theories concerning interest and motivation and pointed out that English learning interest plays an important role in English learning and teaching. 2.1 Relationship between Learning Interest and Motivation Keller identifies interest as one of the main elements of motivation (1987). The students in junior high school are naturally curious, active and energetic, so interest is a necessary and efficient mean to arouse their motivation. Their motivation will be enhanced if they are intereste
