激励是指通过一些策略来激发人的动机,并且诱导充分发挥其本身所具有的潜力,为实现目标而努力的活动过程,也是通常所指的调动人的积极性和主动性。那么,激励教学法就是指以学生为主体,通过运用外部条件从内心激发起学生的学习积极性和主动性,也是一种非常有效的教学方法,应用到初中英语课堂,不仅能够激发中学生自主地学习,更能够增强中学生学习英语的自信。一、明确目标,初中英语课堂开展激励教学1、初中生特殊心理因素的需要 Incentives are the motivations that motivate people through a number of tactics and induce motivations that give full play to their own potential and work hard to achieve their goals, as well as the motivation and initiative of those commonly referred to as motivators. Then, the motivational teaching method refers to the student as the main body, through the use of external conditions from the heart to stimulate students’ enthusiasm and initiative of learning, but also a very effective teaching method, applied to junior high school English classroom, not only can stimulate secondary students to learn autonomously , More able to enhance the confidence of secondary school students to learn English. A clear goal, junior high school English classroom to carry out incentive teaching 1, the needs of special psychological factors of junior high school students