Application of Affective Teaching Method to Vocational English Teaching

At present, vocational education develops rapidly and reform of higher vocational colleges is carried out vigorously. Meanwhile, reform of English teaching is also pushed forward ceaselessly. Both educational circles and foreign language teaching circles are focusing on these reforms. They mainly concentrate on teacher quality, teaching equipment, teaching contents, teaching environment, curriculum setting and teaching method. However, the most important focus is teaching method. Actually, teaching method is a significant link to achieve good teaching effect. With the gradual progress of reforms, people start to realize the importance and necessity of affective factors in teaching application. Therefore, we should pay high attention to application of affective teaching method in English teaching, to make reform of vocational English teaching keep up with pace of the era. Under such background, this paper firstly analyzes the necessity of strengthening affective education in vocational English teaching. Then, channels of strengthening affective education in vocational English teaching are discussed. In another word, it analyzes what we should start with. Based on this, the author tries to explore the application strategies of affective teaching for English of higher vocational colleges, which is how to apply such method. Besides, relevant analysis is made.