CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -occurs when learners receive messages that they can understand. a language user must also have an adequate amount of time to consciously think about and apply learned rules. Affective filter can be prompted by many different variables including anxiety, self-confidence and motivation.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Affective Filter hypothesis embodies Krashen’s view that a number of ‘affective variables’ play a facilitative, but non-causal, role in second language acquisition. These variables include: motivation, self-confidence, anxiety and personality traits.

Detailed explanation-3: -The affective filter is a metaphor that describes a learner’s attitudes that affect the relative success of second language acquisition. Negative feelings such as lack of motivation, lack of self-confidence and learning anxiety act as filters that hinder and obstruct language learning.

Detailed explanation-4: -Krashen (1986) cites motivation, self-confidence, and anxiety in the Affective Filter Hypothesis as three categories of variables that play a role in second language acquisition.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Affective Filter Hypothesis states that negative emotions, such as stress, anxiety, boredom, and lack of motivation, create a psychological filter (the Affective Filter) that reduces a student’s ability to absorb comprehensible input.