Research on the Inspiration and Reference of Foreign Motivation Theory to Language Teaching Reform in China

摘要

The study of foreign language learning motivation begins with Gardner and Lambert, is the research under the framework of social psychology. Since the 1990s, there have been several new theories of motivation research, such as expectation-value theory and attribution theory. The development of motivation theory for Chinese foreign language teaching is mainly reflected on how to stimulate and maintain students' foreign language learning motivation in foreign language teaching classroom. This paper attempts to discuss the way and method of foreign language teaching reform in our country by combining the relevant principles of motivation theory and its development. In the field of education, more and more attention are paid to how to teach students to learn today, such as learning motivation, learning interest and other non-intellectual factors on the impact of student learning, which increasingly arousing widespread concern by the education department, in college English teaching reform, we have encountered a variety of problems in the daily teaching. In order to avoid too much failure, some students don't want to take the initiative to try in the study; although the IQ of some students is not bad, but in the learning initiative and enthusiasm aspects, there is not existing a big enough; other students can not focus on the knowledge being learned due to excessive anxiety, so that the decline appears in academic performance and so on. All of these problems can be attributed to learning motivation. This paper attempts to discuss the motivation theory and its development situation to explore the way and method of teaching reform on our university English teaching.