Fifty English majors who enrolled Foreign Language Department, Heze University in 2010 are the subjects in this investigation. All of them are the top ten sophormores chosen from the five paralleled classes respectively according to last final examination held at the end of 2011. Most of them have at least ten years English learning experiences. So far they have had more opportunities to interact with their college teachers and naturally have formed relatively stable perceptions about different affective factors when answering the questionnaire. They all cooperated with the researcher to deal with the questionnaires well and seriously, which were to test their attitudes and affective factors toward their English classes.
The questionnaire is adapted partly from that of Zhou Xing and Zhou Yun‟s (2002), some of the questions have been deleted and some are added. All in all, it is composed of ten items. The first two questions aim to locate the subjects‟ English level, which can be a basic reference to the following questions. The next five questions were designed to learn about the learners‟ performances in classroom. They are devised to investigate the factors that prevent students from full class participation and find out the reason why they gain good or bad marks in English tests. All the former eight questions are multiple-choice questions. The ninth and tenth questions are “ask and answer” questions, which are to collect the data of students‟ true feelings and attitudes when facing difficulties in class. Questions about attitude and preference towards teacher‟s feedback and guidance are also involved. It is expected that the students can express their true feelings naturally and their answers can reflect their affective factors toward English learning in class. The questionnaire is written in Chinese in case the students have difficulty in understanding each question or expressing their opinions in English. To ensure that they would answer the question items honestly, the subjects responded the questionnaires anonymously.