Integrate mental health education into English teaching, find the best combination of English teaching and mental health education, give full play to students' psychological potential, develop students' personality, and achieve while improving psychological quality. The dual goal of improving the efficiency and quality of English teaching. In order to ensure the realization of this goal, I try my best to create a good psychological environment in English teaching, stimulate students' enthusiasm for learning English, arrange certain psychological quality training around teaching needs, and combine the learning of psychological knowledge with various forms of psychological training Combined, we initially explored some ways of integrating mental health education into English teaching.
1. Create a good psychological environment and train students’ memory
Psychological research shows that people’s thinking is more active, their perceptions are sharper, and their memories are stronger when they are in a relaxed and happy mood. The imagination is richer. Positive emotions and emotions inject vitality and vitality into cognitive activities and are a driving force for the development of consciousness. A good psychological environment is a catalyst to stimulate students' thinking. From this, in teaching, I always try to find ways to mobilize students' pleasant emotions, remind students of the emotions they have experienced before, and create a relaxed atmosphere and a better psychological environment. For example: when teaching "money, poor, rich", if you simply teach the pronunciation and spelling of words, students may not have any response. However, I redesigned the class and asked many questions, "Do you have any money? What will you do if you have money? How will you make money when you grow up? Do you think the rich are always happy? Do you want to be a rich person or a poor person? Because these questions are meaningful to them. The participation of various emotions such as opposition, doubt, and expectation made the words "money, poor, rich" quickly mastered. It can be seen that in such an active classroom atmosphere, students' knowledge points are both consolidated. Improved abilities.
2. Encourage students to question boldly and train students’ thinking skills
Teachers should guide students to observe, discover, and analyze from multiple perspectives. , Solve problems. Regarding conclusions, students should be allowed to question. Students’ thinking activities start with “doubt” and are driven by “doubt”.
Of course, students should also be encouraged to dare to question. Pay attention to correctly handling their doubts and protecting their enthusiasm for innovation. For key contents, teachers should dig into the teaching materials and try to ask questions from multiple angles to gradually lead their thinking to improve their thinking level. For example, when studying The. Before the article "population of China", I was not eager for students to understand China's population or development status. Instead, I raised a question: "How much do you know about China, boys and girls? "The teacher does not limit the scope of discussion. Students can talk about China from various aspects, including history, politics, economy, culture, geography, customs, etc. Students consult a large amount of information before class to understand China in an all-round way. has 56 peoples./ China has a long history./The population of China is about 1,200,000,000 and it is the largest in the world./ The Great Wall is well-known in the world./The Changjiang River is the longest in China./ Our main national policy is that a pair of husband and wife only can have one child...), students had lively discussions during class, spoke enthusiastically in English, and changed their habit of silence in the past, thinking and thinking seriously. The new knowledge has been consolidated, and divergent thinking has been trained in a real sense. After this class, the students still wanted to know more about China, which aroused their desire for knowledge, which also achieved the goal of learning. The purpose of language.
3. Solve students’ psychological barriers and train their psychological quality for communication
The purpose of English teaching is to increase language through extensive training in listening, speaking, reading and writing. The practical ability of students enables students to initially acquire the ability to use English. English teaching materials place special emphasis on communicative use, but students are often afraid of speaking. Therefore, teachers must understand the actual age characteristics and psychological characteristics of students and help them overcome their own psychological obstacles, such as timidity. Help them overcome the bad habits of learning mute English such as being afraid to speak, fear of being laughed at if they say something wrong, fear of difficulties, etc.
According to the connotation of the teaching materials, teachers create pleasant communication situations that are pleasant to the eyes, ears, and hearts, attracting students to practice dialogue with enthusiasm, communicate easily and happily, and cultivate good communication psychology and the ability to cooperate with others. For example, 5 minutes before class, we held a Free Talk. Students could tell English stories, guess English riddles, sing English songs, perform English dialogues, perform self-written and acted English textbook plays, collect foreign customs, etc., and try their best to Allow every student to participate, boldly use English to clarify their thoughts, and use their talents. No matter how their talks or performances are, as long as each student does it, other students will applaud with encouragement and approval, and give an appropriate evaluation score, looking forward to continuous improvement in the future. In order to better train students' psychological quality and communicative skills, we also use class meetings to organize the whole class to carry out English recitation, speech and other competitions. Now, students are not so afraid of speaking English and can basically communicate with others. In the process of self-expression, students have confirmed their own value and ability and gained the psychological experience of successful performance. 4. Make full use of classroom teaching activities to infiltrate mental health education into students
Penetrate mental health education into all teaching links and avoid formalization so that students can be educated in ideological, moral and psychological qualities. .
(1) Consciously add some famous sayings and aphorisms in the classroom to stimulate students' enthusiasm for learning, enhance their interest in learning, and cultivate their overall quality. For example: It is never too late to mend, He would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom, One is never too old to learn. When it gets old), The car will find its way round the hill when it gets there (The car will find its way round the hill when it gets there).
(2) Pay attention to the educational content of ideological quality in the textbooks, and conduct discussions in the classroom to achieve the purpose of mental health education. In English textbooks, many dialogues and short articles are good materials for infiltrating mental health education into students. For example, Unit 6 Enjoy Cycling, one of the purposes of studying this unit is to learn the excellent qualities of sports stars in overcoming difficulties and perseverance. This allows students to explain their existing problems in class, such as study pressure, etc. During the group discussion, the teacher can provide them with psychological counseling, and then the students express their own opinions and solutions. They also learn to use appropriate sentences and tones to express opinions, such as "You should... You'd better...", etc., thus achieving the effect of killing two birds with one stone.
Practice has proven that incorporating mental health education into English classroom teaching can effectively improve classroom efficiency, fully cultivate students' various abilities, complete the task of English teaching excellently, and ultimately achieve implementation quality. educate.