Changes in cognitive emotion of english learners in vocabulary acquisition

Abstract

Vocabulary acquisition is an important step of English learning. During vocabulary learning, the English learners have obvious changes in cognitive emotion. Based on the theory of psycholinguistics, this paper explores the changes in cognitive emotion of English learners, whose mother tongue is Chinese, during vocabulary acquisition. A long-term follow-up survey was conducted on two classes receiving two English vocabulary teaching methods. The survey results show that, on the primary level of vocabulary acquisition, English learners show strong cognitive emotion towards categories of word pair; during vocabulary acquisition, cognitive emotion covers the initiative, selective attention, self-assessment, self-cognition and self-arrangement of the learners; the mechanism of cognitive emotion is gradually cultivated through different psychological behaviors; the cognitive emotion is positively correlated with the ability to acquire English vocabulary. The research lays a theoretical basis for the reform of English language teaching.