Volume 4,Issue 3
The Affective Filter Hypothesis and its Enlightenment for College English Teaching
First put forward by Dulay & Burt in 1977, the affective hypothesis aims to illustrate the affective factors’ influence on the process of foreign language acquisition. Later, it became an indispensable part of Krashen’s SLA theory. This article mainly puts its emphasis on the following: motivation, self-esteem and anxiety. Based on the illustration of these three aspects and the current educational situation in colleges, the author points out that during their teaching process, teachers should make their best to optimize students’ emotional factors, low their affective filters that is, high motivation, low anxiety, and self-esteem.
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