【正文】 vernment. However, many primary school English teaching methods are still under exploration. In primary schools nowadays, children are active, lively, but impatient. They like learning new things in a special ways and like tasting fresh things. A teachercentered class is a traditional one that has been influenced by the examinationoriented traditional system for a long period.In traditional teaching class, the following steps are often engaged: 1) learn the alphabet。 2) pronounce the letters 3) read a word 4) form sentences. Or the teacher explain every language point in detail, while students take notes all the time. The teacher often emphasizes the importance of grammar and gives so many definitions, rules and explanations to students. They pletely ignore the nature of the children and fail to develop and cultivate children’s ability of municative petence. The classroom activities that the students do most are just listening and taking notes. It is just like teachers pouring water into a container. Children are filled with hash sentence structures, vocabulary and grammar mechanically. What they gain are dead words and structures. They can’t use them in munication and they find no intetest in learning English. When they find no interest in class, they may get bored and do their own things. Traditional teaching method can not arouse their interest and enthusiasm in class. How to solve this problem? Teaching model should be reformed is the key to solve the problem.Teaching and Textbook Writing Syllabuses for Primary School English also points out, “Interest is a good teacher for pupils to learn a foreign langage. But what are young students interested in?Games.” In this paper, it is suggested that teacher should motivate and encourage students by using games teaching method so as to improve the quality of teaching and learning as well as arousing children’s interest in English.This paper focus on disscusing the gamesteaching approach in arousing children’s interest in English , and tries to give some suggestions for finding a better teaching model for children English teaching. 2. Brief introduction of games Definition of gamesJill Hadfield (1984:45) defined games as “an activity with rules, a goal and element of fun.” Spodek Bernard amp。 lower student’s stress。t want to take part in games36Don39。 it is an active motivational factor to drive the students to learn English, a mental element to shape the students’ learning initiative and enterprise. Therefore, interest plays an essential and curcial role in English teaching.When students take interst in English, they will be highly selfmotivated to learn, and learning is no longer a burden to them, but a matter of happiness. Interest is generally induced by curiosity and desire to learn . Interest builds up confidence of learning, and enhances the initial need to learn. Driven by interest, students closely attend to something that interests them, which makes them confident of their abilities, and thus strengthens their confidence of overing difficulties. The relationship between interest and gamesOn the basis of the above, we can clearly see that games have an important role in arousing children’s interest in learning English. As children always like to play games, games are helpful for stimulating children’s interest in learning a foreign languge. Through games, children find funny in learning English so as to arouse their interest in English.Here is a chart that can illustrate the relationship between interest and games.PromoteGamesInterestCauseActiveLearning English wellpromoteFrom this chart, we can clearly see the connection between games and interest, and their influences on English learning. Games can cause and bring about interest in English. In reverse, interest can make the games active and more funny as well as stimulate students’ enthusiasm in the games and learning activities. Meanwhile, games activities and interest in English can help promote students to learn English well.4. Psychological theroy on children Psychological feature of childrenChildren in the primary school are quite curiositive to all the things that around them. Meanwhile, children at this age level are eager for acquiring some skills so as to raise their independence and selfesteem as well as their confidence (鄭雪:1999).According to the Psychological theroy, if children’s curiosity or their emotional expression are satisfied, they will feel happy and active in doing everything. But, in contrast, if their curiosity are hindered and constrained, they are likely to feel depressed and developed a great inferiority plex. They will have a tendency to shrink up when they can not get affirmation of their behaviours. Therefore, English teaching ought to bine children’s psychological and physiological characteristics so as to stimulate their interest and motivation so as to enhance their confidence in English learning as well as create a harmonious atmosphere in the classroom.Learning knowledge in primary school is an essential period for children. At this level, most of the children are active, lively,and full of energy. Active is the nature of children (桑標: 2003). There is saying goes like this: none of one children dislike playing. Therefore, we must create an effective proposal that is suitable for chlidren’s character development according to their psychological and physiological characteristics. Through this way, we can achieve the teaching aims effectively. The key to achieve this aims is to sustitude the traditional teaching method with an interesting teaching method.Most famous psychologists advocated that interest were the most important motivational factors in learning and development. Based upon the Psychological theroy, interest is the main motivation that could make children take part in activities. (鄭雪:1999). Children’s interest is always connected with their positive emotions