现代心理学之父皮亚杰说:“所有智力方面的工作都要依赖于兴趣”。作为一名小学英语教师,在英语教学中应该如何培养和激发学生学习英语的兴趣呢?一、发挥chant、歌曲的激趣功能,以乐激趣chant是一种节奏感很强的韵诗,它易于为学生接受。在教学中,我尽量发挥chant的功能,并配以简易而学生乐于接受的动作。比如我在教家庭成员的称呼时,除了利用课本上的小诗之外,我还运用了下面的这首chant(Father and mother/Help Piaget, the father of modern psychology, said: “All intellectual work depends on interest.” As a primary school English teacher, how to cultivate and stimulate students’ interest in learning English in English teaching? First, play chant, the fun features of the song to the fun chant is a very rhythmic rhyme, It is easy to accept for students. In teaching, I try my best to play the chant function, with simple and students willing to accept the action. For example, when I was teaching a family member, I used the following chant (Father and mother / Help