先秦时期,孔子就提出了乐学的思想,“学而时习之,不亦乐乎”。明朝王守仁强调儿童教育应顺应儿童天性,要以学为乐。教育家蔡元培更是主张要重视学生个性发展,陶冶学生的性情。小学生性格活泼开朗,对英语学习有着深厚的兴趣,但同时在初学英语时会容易遇到挫折,容易产生厌倦心理。在小学英语教学中,教师要丰富教学手段,采用听、说、读、写、演、唱等多种形式,激发学习兴趣,培养学生参与表达的欲望。但部分教师迫于应试的 Pre-Qin period, Confucius put forward the idea of ​​learning, “learning and learning, enjoy themselves ”. Wang Shou-ning Ming stressed that children’s education should be child-oriented nature, to learn for pleasure. Educator Cai Yuanpei is more advocated to pay attention to individual personality development, cultivate the students’ temperament. Pupils lively and cheerful personality, has a deep interest in learning English, but at the same time in English will be easy to encounter setbacks, prone to psychological fatigue. In primary school English teaching, teachers should enrich teaching methods and adopt various forms such as listening, speaking, reading, writing, acting and singing to stimulate their interest in learning and cultivate the desire of students to express themselves. But some teachers are forced to test