The Significance of Teachers' Emotion in
Primary School English Teaching
Abstract: Through a brief description of the contemporary English teaching in primary school, this paper first puts forward the significant role of the teacher in primary school, especially the external expression of teachers’ emotion. Then it elaborates, at the same time, attaches importance to the four kinds of emotion: facial expression, voice tone, body movement, verbal expression. Besides, it analyses the different teachers’ external emotion performance towards the excellent and poor students as well as the introvert and extravert. Then it concludes the disadvantages of introverted teachers’ emotion performance, and the positive and negative effects of extraverted teachers’ emotion performance. At last, it again stresses the importance of teachers’ spontaneous, passionate expression of emotion in English class by connecting with the psychology.
Key words: emotion; external expression; primary school English teaching
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1. Introduction 1
1.1 A Brief Introduction to the Contemporary Primary School English Teaching 1
1.2 Proposal of the Teachers’ Emotions in Primary School English 1
2. External Expression of Teachers’ Emotions 2
2.1 Facial Expression 2
2.2 Voice Tone 3
2.3 Body Movement 5
2.4 Verbal Expression 6
3. The Proper Usage of Emotions in Primary School English Teaching 7
3.1 Teachers’ Different External Expression towards Excellent and Poor Students 7
3.2 Teachers’ Different Emotions towards Introvert and Extravert 7
3.3 The Different Emotional Expression between Introverted and Extraverted 8
3.4 The Positive and Negative Influences of Introverted and Extraverted Teachers 9
4. Psychological Analysis of Emotional Factors 10
5. The Significance of Primary School English Teachers’ Emotions 10
6. Conclusion 10
Works Cited 12
