Author(s)

Yanyan Bao, Shuzhen Liu

Ningbo University of Technology, Ningbo, China.

Along with the development of humanistic psychology, the affective factors in education are gaining more and more importance. The paper introduces three major affective factors in second language acquisition, which are self-esteem, motivation and anxiety. With the expectation to play the positive role of affective factors in second language acquisition and diminish its negative influences on education, and exert the intuitive subjectivity to study, this paper analyses its application on teaching from the perspective of teachers, as well as its implication on studying from the students’ perspective.

Affective Factors, Second Language Acquisition, Foreign Language Teaching

Bao, Y. and Liu, S. (2021) The Influence of Affective Factors in Second Language Acquisition on Foreign Language Teaching. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 9, 463-470. doi: 10.4236/jss.2021.93030.