Emotional State in the Process of Foreign Language Teaching /Learning

Abstract

The primary motive for learning a language is that it provides a means of communication [Littlewood,W.1996.: 53].The ever-growing need for good communication skills in English has created a huge demand of English teaching around the world. Millions of people today want to improve their skills in English. Opportunities to learn English are provided in many different ways such as through formal instruction, study abroad, as well as through the media and the internet. The world-wide need for English has created an enormous demand for quality language teaching materials and recourses. Learners want to be able to master English to a high level of accuracy and fluency. Employers too insist that their employees have good English language skills, and fluency in English is a prerequisite for success and advancement in many fields of employment in today’s world. The demand for an appropriate teaching methodology is therefore as strong as ever.

The full name of the Communicative Approach is "The Communicative-Adaptive approach." This highlights the two most distinctive features of the CA: first, that it is a new way to understand human emotionally-laden communications and second, that it has shown that the primary function of the emotion-processing mind is to cope with - adapt to - immediate emotionally-charged triggering events.