AFFECTIVE VARIABLES IN THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING PROCESS

Prodanovska-Poposka, Vesna and Todorova, Marija (2023) AFFECTIVE VARIABLES IN THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING PROCESS. PALIMPSEST: International Journal for Linguistics, Literary and Cultural Research, 8 (15). pp. 261-271. ISSN 2545-3998

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Abstract

Emotions significantly affect the process of foreign language teaching and learning. Some of them have a positive impact and facilitate the learning and the ability to memorize, and others have a negative impact and ‘block’ or debilitate the learning process. Native language proficiency, language aptitude, attitudes and beliefs, affective variables, demographic features (age, gender), etc., are already well-established influential factors related to foreign language learning. The authors of this paper actually attempt to scrutinize the affective variables i.e. anxiety, motivation and self-esteem among university
students-learners of English and Spanish as foreign languages. The paper presents testing of the Stephen Krashen’s Affective Filter Hypothesis by surveying a group of students in order to determine the presence of anxiety, to evaluate the level of motivation and self-esteem, thus confirming or refuting Krashen’s Affective Filter Hypothesis. According to the obtained results of the aforementioned analysis of both groups of FL students, it is well established that the Affective Filter Hypothesis is partially confirmed.
Keywords: Affective variables; Foreign language learning; Affective Filter Hypothesis

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	Scientific Fields (Frascati) > Humanities > Languages and literature
Divisions:	Faculty of Biotechnical Sciences
Depositing User:	Prof. d-r Vesna Prodanovska
Date Deposited:	04 Jul 2023 09:15
Last Modified:	04 Jul 2023 09:15
URI:	https://eprints.uklo.edu.mk/id/eprint/8537

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