Abstract This thesis is mainly based on the influences of learners’ emotions on second language acquisition。 Emotional factors play a very important role in second language learning because they are associated with the success of second language acquisition directly。 Many researchers have already focused on the relationship between emotional factors and language learning as well。 Emotional factors include motivation, personality, attitude, language anxiety and empathy。 Active or positive emotions can promote our second language learning while negative emotions can obstruct our learning in second language。 Thus, this thesis is aimed to explore the relationship between emotional factors and language learning from the following aspects: how to stimulate learning motivation, how to formulate different learning strategies, how to overcome language anxiety, how to cultivate correct attitudes and how to foster empathy。 In addition, some enlightenment is given to language teaching and learning。94670

Keywords: emotional factors; second language acquisition; influence 

摘要本文是以学习者情感因素对第二语言习得的影响为主要内容。情感因素在二语习得中的作用越来越重要因为它和二语习得的成功有着直接的联系。很多研究者也已经开始关注情感因素和语言学习之间的关系。情感因素包括动机，个性特征，态度，语言焦虑和移情。积极的情绪可以促进学习，反之起到阻碍作用。因此，该篇论文从如何培养学习动机，制定不同的学习策略，克服语言焦虑，树立正确的态度和增强移情能力几方面来探究情感因素与语言学习的关系。除此之外，给语言教学和学习提供一些启示。

毕业论文关键词：情感因素；二语习得；影响

Contents

1。Introduction 1

2。Literature Review 1

2。1Development of the research of second language acquisition 1

2。2The current research status at home and abroad 3

3。Major Types of Affective Factors and Their Influences 3

3。1Motivation 4

3。2Personality 6

3。3Language anxiety 7

3。4Attitude 9

3。5Empathy 11

4。 Enlightenment in Language Teaching and Learning 12

5。Conclusion 13

Works Cited 15

1。 Introduction 

Nowadays, a growing number of people in China begin to learn second language。 It seems to have become a trend in the modern society。

Generally speaking, second language refers to any language besides a person’s first language or mother tongue。 Second language acquisition(SLA) is the process by which people learn a second language besides their native language。 Usually, people pay much attention to learners’ cognitive abilities。 In recent years, many researchers have studied the inpidual factors of learners and agreed that learners’ personal factors are critical to the success of second language acquisition。 Among them, emotional factors influence a lot on learning。 

In fact, there are many factors which can affect the second-language acquisition such as the language learning environment, models of teaching, ways of teaching, different ways of thinking between two languages and many other objective factors。 However, some subjective factors like teachers’ and learners’ emotions sometimes play an important role as well。 The research shows that emotions are closely related to cognitive processes。 Emotional factors include people’s learning motivations, personalities and so on。 They can play an positive role or a negative role。 Thus, it is essential to figure out the relationship between emotional factors and the second language acquisition。 At the same time, the teacher can also use learners’ emotional factors to ameliorate teaching methods in the teaching process to improve the quality of teaching。