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 Linguistic, 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.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	Humanities > Languages and literature
Divisions:	Faculty of Philology
Depositing User:	Marija Todorova
Date Deposited:	20 Sep 2023 11:12
Last Modified:	20 Sep 2023 11:12
URI:	https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/id/eprint/32223

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