农村初中英语教学一直是学科教学中最为薄弱的环节,学生基础差、底子薄,厌学现象严重。究其原因,主要是大部分学生认为英语没用、难学、无趣,对英语学习不感兴趣,不愿为之付出努力,学习起来很困难,越觉得困难就越不愿努力,因而形成了恶性循环。要让学生爱上英语学习,既要培养其直接兴趣,又要培养其间接兴趣。笔者结合多年农村初中教学实践,从以下几个方面谈谈如何培养农村初中学生的学习兴趣。 English teaching in rural junior high schools has always been the weakest link in the subject teaching. The students’ foundation is poor, their foundation is weak, and the phenomenon of weariness is serious. The main reason is that most students think that English is useless, difficult to learn, boring, not interested in learning English, do not want to work hard to learn it very difficult, the more you feel difficult the more reluctant to work, resulting in a vicious cycle. For students to love English learning, it is necessary to cultivate their direct interests, but also to cultivate their indirect interests. The author combines many years of junior high school teaching practice in rural areas, from the following aspects to talk about how to cultivate the interest of rural junior high school students.