By Stephen Krashen
ReadOasis Step 4

I'd like to discuss one more hypothesis before we move on to literacy. And this is a very important one called the Affective Filter Hypothesis. Research in language acquisition has concluded that there are several factors that relate to success in language acquisition. And I'm going to list them here on your screen.

One factor is motivation. Students who are more motivated to do better in language acquisition. Those of you who study this know that it's littl...