American educator Bloom said: "Students' interest, motivation, attitude, curiosity and emotion play an important role in promoting students' intellectual development." In recent years, some teaching methods advocated by foreign English teaching theorists emphasize that students' interest in learning is the key to learning a language well. Subjectively, middle school students' attention is not persistent enough, their learning purpose is not clear enough, and their cognition is unintentional and random. Objectively speaking, Chinese and English belong to different language families and are far apart. Coupled with the lack of language environment, in order to actively participate in English learning, they must improve their interest in English. First, the impact of interest on English learning Interest is a positive and conscious tendency for people to contact things and try to participate in corresponding activities. Bruner, an American psychologist, said in the book "The Educational Process": "The best motivation for learning is the interest in the materials learned. When people have a certain interest, they will show positive emotions about the activity or thing. " If a middle school student is interested in English learning, he will not regard English as a heavy burden. On the contrary, it will appear in a proactive manner and gain the pleasure of learning. Interest learning can make students concentrate and think positively. Moreover, people learn things in a psychological state full of interest, master them quickly and remember them well. Interest stimulates curiosity. Generally speaking, the higher middle school students' interest in English learning, the more active they are in learning and the better their learning effect will be. If interest becomes the psychological need for middle school students to learn English, students can gradually form the habit of learning English consciously and actively, and the difficulty of learning English will be reduced. Only when you have a strong interest in English can you improve your initiative in learning, overcome all kinds of difficulties in learning and concentrate on your study. Second, how to improve English learning interest 1. Aristotle said, "Thinking begins with questions and surprises." People's thinking begins with problems. Students' thinking is accompanied by endless problems. Only with the problems that need to be solved can we arouse the enthusiasm of thinking and stimulate students' interest in learning. Common import methods are as follows: (1) Tell a story. Middle school students have a soft spot for stories. When they heard the story, their interest came at once. For example, Unit 9 in the first volume of Grade 8, when was he born? This paper introduces some famous people, including "Air Jordan", and introduces new lessons by telling Jordan's growth experience, which can not only arouse students' interest, but also achieve the purpose of educating students through Jordan's tortuous experience. (2) Simulate life scenes. Students have too much to say about life, and they are also willing to tell their own lives. As long as you are close to life, you can use this introduction method. (3) debate. Middle school students especially like to compete with others. As long as there is an opportunity to express themselves, they will never miss it. In addition, successful import can also be achieved through experiments, songs and imagination. A good introduction is half the battle, and students' interest will increase sharply because of the wonderful introduction, thus unconsciously entering the best learning state. 2. Novel and diverse teaching methods Physiologically speaking, a single form can easily lead to the transformation of brain stimulation from excitement to inhibition, reducing learning efficiency. Psychologically, middle school students are active and like to change. No matter how good the teaching form and practice form are, if they are simply repeated too much, students' interest will drop sharply. Therefore, English teaching in middle schools should take various forms according to students' psychological characteristics such as curiosity, activeness, interest and competitiveness and the law of thinking development. In short, different classes adopt different teaching methods to make students feel fresh, thus improving learning efficiency and enthusiasm. The following are several teaching methods: (1) Formula method is especially suitable for learning grammar rules. There are many grammatical rules in English learning, and rote learning is not only easy to forget, but also ineffective. At this time, the formula method is a good choice. For example, the law of changing the ordinal number of cardinal words can be compiled into the following formula: one, two, three special notes, eight pairs of t, nine pairs of e, f pairs of ve, and then add -th, a decimal integer ending in ty. When changing ordinal numbers, change Y into ie, and then add -th. If you encounter "dozens" above the 20th, you can only change to one place. In addition, (2) competition method, syllable-based word segmentation, word guessing and message passing method are all applicable to word memory. The biggest obstacle to English learning is word memory, and word learning is the most boring. If the word memory process can be concrete, visual, interesting and competitive, it will be much easier to remember words and students' interest in learning will be mobilized accordingly. Middle school students like to catch up with each other and remember words in groups to see which group remembers faster, more accurately and more. The effect is definitely better than repeated mechanical memory. Word segmentation by syllable is suitable for words with long syllables but regular syllables, such as comfortable and * * *, which can be recorded by com, for and table respectively, meaning that it is natural to be comfortable when you come to a place with a table. Word guessing is especially suitable for words close to life, such as dancing. Let the students perform the corresponding dance movements on the stage, and the rest of the students guess the words according to the performed movements. The message-telling method can be used not only to recite words, but also to practice sentence patterns. Specifically, students can participate in the competition horizontally or vertically in the teacher's seat, or they can act in groups of two horizontally and two vertically. The teacher whispered a sentence or word to the first student in each group and asked him to pass it on in a low voice. The last student in each group stands up and repeats loudly, which is fast and difficult to win. Over a period of time, the content of the message can be gradually increased. (3) In the bingo game, nine words or phrases are randomly written on the nine spaces of the bingo card, and the teacher randomly reads three of them each time. The students crossed out the words or phrases they heard on the filled bingo cards. If the crossed words or phrases are horizontal, vertical or oblique (in any direction), they will shout "Bingo" and the fastest winner will be rewarded.
3. Traditional and modern teaching methods (1) mobilize students to make teaching AIDS in person to improve their interest in English learning. Sometimes, due to the limited teaching conditions, in order to teach more intuitively, students can be mobilized to make teaching AIDS themselves, such as learning English with fruits and vegetables. Students can draw all kinds of fruits and vegetables on paper, color them and cut them out for classroom teaching. After the teaching, put the teaching AIDS made by the students together to hold an exhibition, so that the students can share their own labor results and experience the fun of learning. (2) Multimedia Teaching Multimedia teaching is an organic combination of computer technology and teaching process, and it is a new teaching method. The emergence and development of multimedia teaching has made a qualitative leap in teaching effect and students' participation. It is the trend and inevitable requirement of the development of English activities to introduce various media into English classes by using modern teaching methods. Multimedia provides students with comprehensive stimulating information such as sounds, images, pictures and words in the way of watching, listening and speaking, which is conducive to maintaining students' attention. At the same time, wonderful multimedia courseware can also stimulate students' interest, broaden their knowledge, enrich their thinking and imagination, and enable them to master and use knowledge in a relaxed atmosphere. 4. Develop colorful extracurricular activities In order to increase middle school students' interest in learning English and give them more opportunities to communicate in English, teachers can not only work hard in class, but also edit colorful campus culture. Chen Lin, a professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University, said: "No matter how realistic the scenes set in the class are, they are all fake. Only when students use language in their daily lives can they truly master the language. " Professor Chen Lin emphasized the importance of developing English extracurricular activities. Therefore, in order to improve students' interest in learning English, extracurricular guidance is essential. So how to carry out English extracurricular activities? In addition to the common English speech contest, English essay contest and English corner, activities such as English calligraphy contest, English song chorus, English culture festival and English Day can also be held. In particular, the English Culture Festival can introduce some interesting knowledge about English-speaking countries that are quite different from our customs, traditional culture, history and humanities. For example, "White Elephant" is neutral in China culture, but derogatory in English. "Love me, love my dog" literally translates as "love my dog", which actually means. Aristotle said, "Thinking begins with doubt and surprise." Through activities, students can apply what they have learned, make them know themselves, gain a sense of accomplishment in different degrees, increase their self-confidence and interest in learning English. 5. Set up a study group, evaluate it once a month and reward it. The specific way is to group the whole class. It should be noted that the English scores of each group of students are equal, and each group has English experts, which can help students with poor grades. The items participating in the evaluation include not only the average score of the test paper within one month, but also the usual performance, such as the number of speakers in class, the handing in of homework, and the discipline in class. The score of each item is quantified. Through the evaluation, the enthusiasm and participation of students are improved. 6. Foreign teachers and successful English speakers can hire foreign teachers if they can give lectures, so as to comply with students' curiosity and promote students' exploration of English knowledge. Let successful English speakers give lectures, on the one hand, students can learn useful learning methods, on the other hand, appearance and celebrity effect can also motivate students to some extent. 7. Transfer students' interest and stimulate their curiosity. Einstein said, "Interest is the best teacher." In addition to encouraging students in a positive way and cultivating their interest in learning, we can also try to stimulate their interest in a side way. If some students are interested in cartoons, we can recommend them to watch foreign language cartoons such as Ice Age to stimulate their desire to learn English. This method can play the role of "four or two".