情感与英语词汇学习.pdf

福建师范大学优秀硕士论文 （正文部分） Emotion and English Vocabulary Learning 情感与英语词汇学习 毛浩然 作者简介 毛浩然，男，1972 年 5 月出生，现任外国语学院院长助理，福建省自考外 语专业主考，福建省特邀外事翻译，福建师范大学十佳青年，全国基础教育外 语教学研究中心常务委员，外国语学院等六家官方教育网站创办人，全国十大 教育网站“浩然考试网”创办人。近五年主持和参与 10 余项国家级和省厅级科 研课题，在《外语教学与研究》、《外国语》等期刊上发表论文 30 多篇，主编 10 余部英语教材和学习词典。 1 Emotion and English Vocabulary Learning 【Abstract 】Most experts are agreed that emotion is the basic need of human beings, that cognition and emotion are inseparable, and that learners’ proficiency is fulfilled to the largest extent when both cognition and emotion are involved. With regard to language learning, the function of emotion in vocabulary learning has been confirmed by more and more researches in the past decades. But little has been done to study such function of emotion in vocabulary learning by Chinese learners learning English when experts, teachers and students pay more and more attention to vocabulary teaching skills and learning strategies. By experiments this paper is to explore whether emotion aroused by pictures of emotional associations will affect the English vocabulary learning of Chinese learners. In the 1st section of the experiment, recognition task was required after pictures of squares together with the target word lists for memorization were presented to subjects. In the 2nd section participants were divided into two groups before pictures of positive and negative associations were presented respectively to them with the target word lists for memorization. Our study suggested that emotion aroused by pictures of emotional associations did affect word memorization, that vocabulary memorization would be promoted by appropriate anxiety, and that a relaxed or pleasant