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院贵州民族学院外国语学院

专业英语语言文学

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and English Speaking

Thesis statement: The study of the interaction of psychological factors and English speaking can improve the teaching of spoken English.

1. Introduction

2. The Five Important Psychological Factors in Spoken English

2.1. Motivation

2.2. Anxiety

2.3 Self-esteem

2.4 Extroversion

2.5 Self-concept

3. The Application of the Five Psychological Factors in Teaching and Learning Oral

English

3.1 The “Psychology-based” Teaching Approach

3.2 The Realization of the Approach in Spoken English Teaching Practice

3.2.1 Teachers Responsibility

3.2.2 Students Duty

4. Conclusion

Abstract: Spoken English is generally considered an important part in English as a Foreign Language classroom. Many linguists, educationists, and even English teachers have been exploring ways of improving spoken English. They investigated factors concerning English speaking, such as social factors, teachers’ influences, learners’ strategies. This paper attempt s to find effective ways to teach spoken English by exploring the interaction of students’ psychological factors and their oral English. Key Words: interaction; motivation; anxiety; extroversion; self-esteem

and English Speaking

1. Introduction

For the past several decades, with the development of the international communication, English has become the world language. The teaching of oral English is improved to priority in the nations using English as a foreign language, including China. However, there has been a heated debate over the English speaking ability of Chinese university students. From then on, many linguists, educationists, and even the common English teachers（Littlewood 2000;陈颉1997;

贾冠杰1998; 刘森2000; 王蔷2000) have been devoted to explore the ways of improving spoken English. They investigated the factors related to the English speaking, such as social factors, teachers’ influences, learners’ strategies. These researches achieved a great success in the establishment of the concerning theories. However, based on these researches, our teaching methods and techniques, to a larger extent, still failed to produce effective English speaking.

To discover the reasons, many researchers（Cook 1978; Rivers 1964; McDonough 1981）turn to study the learners’ psychology.

2. The Five Important Psychological Factors in Spoken English Teaching and Learning

Language is a tool of communication, so as to English. The ultimate aim of English teachin g is to cultivate the students’ ability o f speaking and communication. Among the four skills of English learning----reading, writing, listening and speaking, reading is perhaps the easiest, while speaking the most difficult to acquire(Huang & Naerssen 1985: 287-307). That is because speaking is an active skill, requiring