TITLE:
The Effect of Affective Filter Hypothesis on College Students’ English Writing Teaching and Its Enlightenment
AUTHORS:
Xiaokun Liu
KEYWORDS:
The Affective Filter Hypothesis, English Writing, Writing Teaching
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Access Library Journal,
Vol.10 No.9,
September
25,
2023
ABSTRACT: In English learning, writing is undoubtedly an important part and task of English teaching, as well as a weak link in college students’ language learning. On the basis of analyzing the current situation of contemporary college students’ English writing, this study discusses the effect of affective factors on college students’ English writing, and discusses how to apply the three affective factors proposed in Krashen’s affective filter hypothesis, namely, motivation, self-confidence and anxiety, to the teaching of college students’ English writing, stimulate students’ internal driving force for learning English writing, help students establish appropriate self-confidence, adjust their anxiety, and improve their English writing ability.