As an important communication tool and thinking tool, English is the carrier of human culture and an important part of cultivating students' good habits and moral quality. Meanwhile, English learning is closely related to students' psychological development. In teaching, teachers should explore the contents of psychological education in textbooks, infiltrate psychological health education, and seize the opportunity in class to give students reasonable psychological counseling, so that English can become the position of students' psychological health education. Psychological quality education in English teaching should start from the following aspects.
1. Cultivate students' self-confidence through English teaching
Some people say that self-confidence comes from the hint of success and inferiority comes from the hint of failure. Why not start? The phenomenon of weariness of learning often happens, largely because students lack self-confidence. Every student will always have something gratifying in the process of growing up, but due to the passage of time and intense study life, students gradually forget all their advantages. So we let students start from knowing themselves, and let each student know their own advantages again. Build confidence and success. For example, you can ask students some simple everyday expressions in class. What is the weather like today? What day is it today? And fully affirm their answers and say more words of encouragement. Sometimes a teacher's sentence "You can do it, you can catch up" can arouse students' courage and confidence to overcome difficulties. Teachers should give students a piece of sunshine and make them feel that the future is bright and everything is beautiful. With self-confidence as the backing, why worry that success is too far away from students?
2. Use English teaching to cultivate students' psychological quality of dealing with setbacks correctly.
With the development of the times, people have to face many setbacks. Most students have a strong competitive spirit and hope to surpass others in all aspects. For competition, they all hold the mentality of "only winning and not losing". Once frustrated, it's easy to get discouraged. Thereby producing inferiority complex. Tell students that failure is a part of life. People often say that failure is the mother of success. Learn to accept failure and treat it correctly. There is such a short passage in the English textbook of Senior Two. Scottish general Bruce lost six wars and finally had to hide in a cave. One day, he saw a spider spinning a web and falling down again and again, but he finally succeeded through unremitting efforts again and again. He got inspiration and courage from it and finally defeated the enemy's attack. When analyzing the text, I asked the students to discuss the reasons for Bruce's success, and asked them to talk about their own failures and setbacks. Take all effective measures and methods to change students' negative self-concept and self-image. Restore their self-confidence, enhance their self-confidence and set up positive ideal goals. Maybe they will encounter all kinds of difficulties and setbacks in their future life, but with such confidence and courage, they can overcome all kinds of difficulties and setbacks and eventually become a successful person. In teaching, we should create many successful opportunities for students and stimulate their enthusiasm for active participation. For students who have experienced many failures, it is easy to form inferiority complex and retreat, which will make them take a wait-and-see attitude in various activities and rarely take the initiative to try. Therefore, we should proceed from their actual situation and take effective measures to create various opportunities for their success and show their expertise.
3. Rational use of encouraging evaluation to enhance their successful experience.
In classroom teaching, teachers should follow the following principles when evaluating students.
3. 1 evaluation should be objective; To make the evaluation comprehensive and objective, we must first have a correct view of talents. Seeing a student depends not only on his academic performance, but also on his learning attitude; It depends not only on his learning attitude, but also on his learning methods; This depends not only on his study methods, but also on his study habits and psychological state. Secondly, we should collect information comprehensively and objectively, fully understand the situation, and prevent the interference of cognitive biases such as "first impression", "halo effect" and "stereotype". Don't judge by one or two exam results, or even form prejudice and prejudice against people.
3.2 Evaluation should be based on encouragement; In teaching, we should change the previous practice of measuring everyone with a ruler, but adopt an evaluation method based on encouragement for each student's original foundation, and give timely encouragement as long as there is progress. After an English exam, I praised a classmate who only got 40 points because he only got 18 points in the last exam. This kind of praise has become a new starting point for him to enhance his self-confidence and continue his efforts, which has greatly improved his future achievements.
3.3 Evaluation should be developmental; Teachers should evaluate students from the perspective of development, and see that middle school students are in the process of growth and development, and everyone has great development potential. Today's ugly duckling may become a white swan in the future. Therefore, when evaluating students, we should not look at them with rigid and fixed eyes, but should see their efforts, their progress and changes, and affirm their progress in time. Mastering the evaluation criteria should have certain relativity.
Teachers should adapt to the requirements of quality education and learn to evaluate each student scientifically and reasonably, so that students can form good psychological quality under the guidance of scientific evaluation and move towards maturity and success.
4. With the help of English teaching, students' interpersonal relationship is harmonious.
Being willing to associate with others, being able to recognize the importance and function of others' existence, and being friendly, sympathetic and trusting more than suspicion, jealousy and hostility when getting along with others are the manifestations of students' mental health. Some students have strong self-esteem, don't like anything, are out of place with the people around them, and stay away from the group. Therefore, in general English teaching, students should consciously cultivate some good language habits and learn to respect others. For example, disturb each other and say "I'm sorry." ; If you do something wrong, you must have the courage to say "sorry"; Thank others with "not at all". In addition, some language materials provided by the text, such as On the Bus and Mr. Ou, can be used to consciously cultivate students' good psychological qualities such as being helpful and friendly to others. Remind students to learn to be tolerant, generous and tolerant. You can often use such tips as "treat others as you want them to treat you", "forgive others is forgive yourself" and "be able to bear and let go when things go wrong". Students should be encouraged to take the initiative to care about others. Their indifference to others goes hand in hand with their loneliness. Learn to care about others and help them when they need it. Create a living atmosphere of mutual assistance, unity and friendship.
In short, in English teaching, teachers should take various measures to create a learning atmosphere of unity, friendship and mutual assistance for students, and constantly cultivate their self-confidence and self-esteem, so that they can confidently meet various challenges, mature and succeed.