要提高英语教学质量就必须了解教与学的心理活动规律。只有对学生的心理特点及其规律做到心中有数,才能使英语教学更为规律化、科学化,形成最优化的方法体系。教学中的所有一切因素,只有在学习者身上起作用,才会有效果。学习者的“动机”是学习英语的最主要的心理因素之一,笔者主要从教育心理学及应用心理学的角度阐述动机在中学英语教学中的作用。 To improve the quality of English teaching, we must understand the rules of psychology of teaching and learning. Only on the psychological characteristics of students and their laws to know how to make the English teaching more regular and scientific, the formation of the optimal method system. All of the elements in teaching can only work if they work on the learner. Learner “motivation ” is one of the most important psychological factors in learning English. The author mainly expounds the role of motivation in English teaching in middle school from the perspectives of educational psychology and applied psychology.