About this subject, scholars in our country did a lot of research, and achieved certain result. For examples, Mr. Zhang Zhengdong published “Affective Factors in Foreign Language Teaching” article on the Southwest University, the paper pointed out the function of emotion in foreign language teaching. And Mr. Zhang Jianzhong points out that the student's personality cognitive style and emotional factors are two very important factors, emotional factors directly influencing foreign language learning. Professor Wang Chu-ming published an article pointed out that there are two important factors influencing foreign language learning: emotional and language. In July 2001 the Ministry of Education to issued and promulgated a “full-time compulsory education - general high school English curriculum standards (trial version)”, put the emotional attitude into the English curriculum standards of basic education stage. All of them are talk about the importance of emotional attitude in language teaching, but does not put some strategies to cultivate students’ emotional attitude in English teaching. This paper aims to explore the cultivation of students’ emotional attitudes in middle school English teaching, and help the students establish the correct attitudes towards English learning.  

II. Emotional Attitude and Language Teaching

2.1 Definition of Emotional Attitude

What is the emotion? Just as its name implies, emotion refers to the emotional psychological process of inner experience and feelings. It is a kind of psychological activity, which has profound and lasting stability, just like the firmly family relationship and solid friendship. Emotions make people feel the long and profound human justice and wonderful feelings “Psychology dictionary” defined as, “Emotion is the attitude experience which is arising from judgment about whether one of objective things meet their needs.” At the same time, common General psychology course also says, “emotions and mood are held by the people of objective things attitude experience, except that the mood is more inclined to the inpidual needs and desires on the attitude of experience, and emotion are more likely in the attitude of social demand desire experience”. In the field of modern educational psychology, people generally believe that human emotion refers to the objective existence of things and reflect their subjective need; also it suggested that the human mind is the emotional perception of the world and the objective existence of things (Bandura 196).

The attitude is a stable psychological tendency of the inpidual to some particular object (people, ideas, emotions or events). This psychological tendency contains the subjective evaluation of the inpidual and the behavior tendency. Meyers (1993) pointed out that the attitude of institutions is involved in three dimensions: emotional, behavioral intentions and cognitive. That is the attitude of the ABC structure.

From the above definition we can know, a positive emotional attitude will make people change the cognitive activities, have a positive emotional experience, and thus make positive behavioral responses.