CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -When the affective filter is low, the learner is in an emotionally safe place. These feelings of safety lower imaginary walls, promoting more successful language acquisition. This type of environment becomes a welcoming invitation to keep learning!

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The ‘Affective Filter’ is a metaphor to convey how a student’s internal negative attitudes and emotions can impede their ability to acquire a second language. This ‘Affective Filter’ in a student is increased or decreased depending on their internal feelings or emotions about language learning.

Detailed explanation-4: -“People with high affective filter will lower their intake whereas people with low affective filter allow more input into their language acquisition device. Affective filter hypothesis is first proposed by Dulay and Burt (1977), and is incorporated by Krashen as one of his five input Hypotheses in 1985.