The Affective Filter in Second Language Teaching

By Xiaoyan Du. 2009

164 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Language learning is a process that involves both objective and affective factors. This paper introduces the concept of affective filter which has four factors, and then argues how to make use of them in SLT. By analyzing this topic, second language teachers can find a better way to conduct their teaching.

Subfields: Language and Linguistics

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1. Sabariah Md Rashid
2. Zhiping Diao
3. S. Paramasivam
4. Ahmed Abdulateef Sabti
5. V. Nimehchisalem
6. R. Darmi

Citations in the corpus

• The Impact of Writing Anxiety, Writing Achievement Motivation, and Writing Self-Efficacy on Writing Performance: A Correlational Study of Iraqi Tertiary EFL Learners (2019, background): “Among other factors that affect EFL writing are motivation and self-efficacy, which play a vital role in EFL writing performance in particular and learning English in the EFL context generally (Brown, 2007; Du, 2009; Yusuf, 2011; Z. J. Zhang et al., 2015).”
• ANXIETY OF SPEAKING ENGLISH IN CLASS AMONG INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS IN A MALAYSIAN UNIVERSITY (2013, background): “The affective filter works like a barrier to language acquisition when the learner is not motivated, not having confidence or thinking about failure, and the filter is low when the learner is not anxious or is trying to get involved in the language (Du 2009).”