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What Is Krashen’s Affective Filter?

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What Is Krashen’s Affective Filter? The “affective filter” is a term made popular by Stephen Krashen, a famous American researcher on second language acquisition, during the 1980s. It is an attempt to describe how a student’s attitudes or emotional variables can impact the success of learning a new language. What is the main emphasis of

How Do You Reduce An Affective Filter?

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How Do You Reduce An Affective Filter? Error correction. Forcing output too early. Isolation. Embarrassment. Lack of comprehensible input. How can teachers lower the affective filter? Create Multiple Opportunities: In addition, teachers can lower the affective filter by creating multiple opportunities in every lesson for students to engage in activities in which they use language