Affective filter
In learning psychology, an affective filter is an emotion that influences a learning process.
Affective filters are differently permeable for learners , which helps to explain different learning progress. Low motivation and low self-confidence are seen as powerful filters. Another example of an affective filter is boredom : If the material to be learned triggers severe boredom in the learner, this feeling of aversion reduces his or her receptivity.
Experiments have shown that children are better able to overcome the inhibitions caused by affective filters than adults.
The term was coined by Stephen Krashen , who set up the affective filter as one of five "input hypotheses" for second language acquisition .
Individual evidence
- ^ Theo Harden: Applied linguistics and foreign language didactics. Fool Study Books, 2006, p. 188
- ^ Gerhard Helbig : German as a foreign language. de Gruyter, 2001, p. 718
- ↑ Stephen D Krashen: Principles and Practice in Second Language Acquisition . Pergamon Press, 1982, pp. 30f. (Subchapter The affective filter hypothesis , Online )