Emotional education plays a very important role in the healthy development of students' body and mind. In the classroom, teachers should adopt diversified teaching methods, closely combine emotional education with text teaching, enhance students' understanding of emotions and enrich students' emotions. How to strengthen emotional education in secondary vocational Chinese teaching is a problem that secondary vocational Chinese teachers need to pay attention to. Chinese teachers in secondary vocational schools should first absorb advanced teaching concepts, set clear emotional education goals in combination with students' actual situation, help students establish correct emotional attitudes and values, and promote their all-round development.

First, the meaning of emotional education

Emotional education is an important part of quality education, which pays attention to students' emotions, beliefs and attitudes towards life, promotes students' healthy physical and mental development and establishes good relations with society. Applying it to teaching activities means that teachers give full play to the role of emotional connection and guidance according to the actual situation of students in classroom teaching, so that students can cultivate positive and healthy emotions in a subtle way.

Second, the important role of emotional education in students' development

1. Make students maintain a positive emotional attitude.

Students' minds are still immature. Implementing emotional education in Chinese teaching can help secondary vocational school students to maintain a positive emotional attitude, set clear learning goals and work hard for them under the correct guidance and help of Chinese teachers, which is conducive to students' growth and development.

2. Improve students' ability to acquire Chinese knowledge.

Chinese textbooks contain a large number of excellent articles, full of the author's rich thoughts and feelings. In the process of guiding students' reading comprehension, teachers can make students think from the author's point of view, which can stimulate students' association, let students understand the author's feelings and improve their ability to acquire Chinese knowledge. From this point of view, the implementation of emotional education in the process of Chinese teaching in secondary vocational schools can make students devote themselves to teaching activities, stimulate students' interest in learning Chinese knowledge and lay the foundation for their future growth and development.